κίβισις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek and related to κιβωτός (kibōtós, “wooden box”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kí.bi.sis/ → /ˈci.βi.sis/ → /ˈci.vi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kí.bi.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.bi.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.βi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.vi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.vi.sis/

Noun

κίβῐσῐς • (kíbĭsĭs) f (genitive κῐβίσεως); third declension

1. A pouch, a wallet, such as Perseus wore

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κῐ́βῐσῐς; τῆς κῐβῐ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῐ́βῐσῐς hē kĭ́bĭsĭs	τὼ κῐβῐ́σει tṑ kĭbĭ́sei	αἱ κῐβῐ́σεις hai kĭbĭ́seis
Genitive	τῆς κῐβῐ́σεως tês kĭbĭ́seōs	τοῖν κῐβῐσέοιν toîn kĭbĭséoin	τῶν κῐβῐ́σεων tôn kĭbĭ́seōn
Dative	τῇ κῐβῐ́σει têi kĭbĭ́sei	τοῖν κῐβῐσέοιν toîn kĭbĭséoin	ταῖς κῐβῐ́σεσῐ / κῐβῐ́σεσῐν taîs kĭbĭ́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κῐ́βῐσῐν tḕn kĭ́bĭsĭn	τὼ κῐβῐ́σει tṑ kĭbĭ́sei	τᾱ̀ς κῐβῐ́σεις tā̀s kĭbĭ́seis
Vocative	κῐ́βῐσῐ kĭ́bĭsĭ	κῐβῐ́σει kĭbĭ́sei	κῐβῐ́σεις kĭbĭ́seis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• πήρα (pḗra)

Further reading

• “κίβισις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κίβισις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN