κράββατος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρᾰ́βᾰτος (krábatos), κρᾰ́βᾰττος (krábattos)
• κρᾰ́βᾰκτος (krábaktos), κρᾰ́βᾰκτον (krábakton)

Etymology

From Ancient Macedonian *γράβος (grabos, “oak”), attested by γράβιον (grabion, “torch”); the Macedonian term appears to be of substrate origin. Compare Latin grabātus (“cot, pallet”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kráb.ba.tos/ → /ˈkraβ.βa.tos/ → /ˈkra.va.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kráb.ba.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkrab.ba.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkraβ.βa.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkrav.va.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkra.va.tos/

Noun

κρᾰ́ββᾰτος • (krábbatos) m (genitive κρᾰββᾰ́του); second declension

1. couch, mattress, pallet

   Synonyms: κλίνη (klínē), λέκτρον (léktron), στρῶμα (strôma), στρωμνή (strōmnḗ)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κρᾰ́ββᾰτος; τοῦ κρᾰββᾰ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κρᾰ́ββᾰτος ho krábbatos	τὼ κρᾰββᾰ́τω tṑ krabbátō	οἱ κρᾰ́ββᾰτοι hoi krábbatoi
Genitive	τοῦ κρᾰββᾰ́του toû krabbátou	τοῖν κρᾰββᾰ́τοιν toîn krabbátoin	τῶν κρᾰββᾰ́των tôn krabbátōn
Dative	τῷ κρᾰββᾰ́τῳ tôi krabbátōi	τοῖν κρᾰββᾰ́τοιν toîn krabbátoin	τοῖς κρᾰββᾰ́τοις toîs krabbátois
Accusative	τὸν κρᾰ́ββᾰτον tòn krábbaton	τὼ κρᾰββᾰ́τω tṑ krabbátō	τοὺς κρᾰββᾰ́τους toùs krabbátous
Vocative	κρᾰ́ββᾰτε krábbate	κρᾰββᾰ́τω krabbátō	κρᾰ́ββᾰτοι krábbatoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κρᾰβᾰκτήρῐος (krabaktḗrios)
• κρᾰβᾰ́κτῐον (krabáktion)

Descendants

• ⇒ Koine Greek: κραβ(β)άτιον (krab(b)átion) (diminutive)
  • Byzantine Greek: κρεβάτι(ο)ν (krebáti(o)n)
    • Greek: κρεβάτι (kreváti), κρεββάτι (krevváti)
      • → Albanian: krevat
      • → Aromanian: crivati
      • → Romanian: crivat (regional, archaic)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: كروت (kerevet) (see there for further descendants)
      • → Russian: кровать (krovatʹ) (see there for further descendants)
    • Mariupol Greek: крева́ть (krjevátʹ)
    • → Russian: крова́ть (krovátʹ) (see there for further descendants)
• → Latin: grabātus
  • → French: grabat
  • → Portuguese: grabato

Further reading

• “κράββατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κράββατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κράββατος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2895 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible