κασαλβάς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κασσαβάς (kassabás)

Etymology

According to Beekes, a Pre-Greek word and clearly related to similar words like κασαύρα (kasaúra) and κασωρίς (kasōrís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.sal.bás/ → /ka.salˈβas/ → /ka.salˈvas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.sal.bás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.salˈbas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.salˈβas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.salˈvas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.salˈvas/

Noun

κᾰσαλβάς • (kăsalbás) f (genitive κᾰσαλβάδος); third declension

1. strumpet

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κᾰσαλβᾰ́ς; τῆς κᾰσαλβᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰσαλβᾰ́ς hē kăsalbắs	τὼ κᾰσαλβᾰ́δε tṑ kăsalbắde	αἱ κᾰσαλβᾰ́δες hai kăsalbắdes
Genitive	τῆς κᾰσαλβᾰ́δος tês kăsalbắdos	τοῖν κᾰσαλβᾰ́δοιν toîn kăsalbắdoin	τῶν κᾰσαλβᾰ́δων tôn kăsalbắdōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰσαλβᾰ́δῐ têi kăsalbắdĭ	τοῖν κᾰσαλβᾰ́δοιν toîn kăsalbắdoin	ταῖς κᾰσαλβᾰ́σῐ / κᾰσαλβᾰ́σῐν taîs kăsalbắsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰσαλβᾰ́δᾰ tḕn kăsalbắdă	τὼ κᾰσαλβᾰ́δε tṑ kăsalbắde	τᾱ̀ς κᾰσαλβᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s kăsalbắdăs
Vocative	κᾰσαλβᾰ́ς kăsalbắs	κᾰσαλβᾰ́δε kăsalbắde	κᾰσαλβᾰ́δες kăsalbắdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• κασαλβάζω (kasalbázō)
• κασάλβιον (kasálbion)

Further reading

• “κασαλβάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κασαλβάς 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