κενέβρεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, this looks like a Pre-Greek word, but he does not add any other information.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ke.né.breː.a/ → /ceˈne.βri.a/ → /ceˈne.vri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ke.né.breː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /keˈne.bri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ceˈne.βri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ceˈne.vri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ceˈne.vri.a/

Noun

κενέβρειᾰ • (kenébreiă) n pl (genitive κενεβρείων); second declension

1. carrion, carcass

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ κενέβρειᾰ; τῶν κενεβρείων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ κενέβρειᾰ tằ kenébreiă
Genitive	τῶν κενεβρείων tôn kenebreíōn
Dative	τοῖς κενεβρείοις toîs kenebreíois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ κενέβρειᾰ tằ kenébreiă
Vocative	κενέβρειᾰ kenébreiă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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