κισσύβιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κισσύφιον (kissúphion)

Etymology

The ancients connected the word with κισσός (kissós, “ivy”), either after the material or after the ornamentation resembling ivy leaves. According to Beekes, the word is Pre-Greek, because of the variation β/φ.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kis.sý.bi.on/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kisˈsy.bi.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cisˈsy.βi.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cisˈsy.vi.on/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈsi.vi.on/

Noun

κῐσσῠ́βῐον • (kĭssŭ́bĭon) n (genitive κῐσσῠβῐ́ου); second declension

rustic drinking-cup of wood, used by the Cyclops

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κῐσσῠ́βῐον; τοῦ κῐσσῠβῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῐσσῠ́βῐον tò kĭssŭ́bĭon	τὼ κῐσσῠβῐ́ω tṑ kĭssŭbĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κῐσσῠ́βῐᾰ tằ kĭssŭ́bĭă
Genitive	τοῦ κῐσσῠβῐ́ου toû kĭssŭbĭ́ou	τοῖν κῐσσῠβῐ́οιν toîn kĭssŭbĭ́oin	τῶν κῐσσῠβῐ́ων tôn kĭssŭbĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ κῐσσῠβῐ́ῳ tôi kĭssŭbĭ́ōi	τοῖν κῐσσῠβῐ́οιν toîn kĭssŭbĭ́oin	τοῖς κῐσσῠβῐ́οις toîs kĭssŭbĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ κῐσσῠ́βῐον tò kĭssŭ́bĭon	τὼ κῐσσῠβῐ́ω tṑ kĭssŭbĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κῐσσῠ́βῐᾰ tằ kĭssŭ́bĭă
Vocative	κῐσσῠ́βῐον kĭssŭ́bĭon	κῐσσῠβῐ́ω kĭssŭbĭ́ō	κῐσσῠ́βῐᾰ kĭssŭ́bĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“κισσύβιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κισσύβιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“κισσύβιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
κισσύβιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
κισσύβιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
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