κεράμβυξ
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The formation is similar to κόλυμβος (kólumbos), κόρυμβος (kórumbos), σήραμβος (sḗrambos) and βόμβυξ (bómbux), ὄρτυξ (órtux). The form cannot be derived from κέρας (kéras, “horn”). If the word has prenasalization, which seemes probable, it is of Pre-Greek origin. Moreover, -υκ- is a typical Pre-Greek suffix. Furnée compares κάραβος (kárabos, “kind of beetle”), κεράμβηλον (kerámbēlon, “kind of beetle”) and κηραφίς (kēraphís, “kind of locust”), suggesting a common root.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ke.rám.byks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /keˈram.byks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ceˈram.byks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ceˈram.byks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ceˈram.biks/
Noun
[edit]κερᾰ́μβῠξ • (kerámbux) m (genitive κερᾰ́μβῠκος); third declension
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κερᾰ́μβῠξ ho kerámbux |
τὼ κερᾰ́μβῠκε tṑ kerámbuke |
οἱ κερᾰ́μβῠκες hoi kerámbukes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κερᾰ́μβῠκος toû kerámbukos |
τοῖν κερᾰμβῠ́κοιν toîn kerambúkoin |
τῶν κερᾰμβῠ́κων tôn kerambúkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κερᾰ́μβῠκῐ tôi kerámbuki |
τοῖν κερᾰμβῠ́κοιν toîn kerambúkoin |
τοῖς κερᾰ́μβῠξῐ / κερᾰ́μβῠξῐν toîs kerámbuxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κερᾰ́μβῠκᾰ tòn kerámbuka |
τὼ κερᾰ́μβῠκε tṑ kerámbuke |
τοὺς κερᾰ́μβῠκᾰς toùs kerámbukas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κερᾰ́μβῠξ kerámbux |
κερᾰ́μβῠκε kerámbuke |
κερᾰ́μβῠκες kerámbukes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Translingual: Cerambyx
Further reading
[edit]- “κεράμβυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κεράμβυξ 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
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension
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