κυβάβδα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, perhaps from Pre-Greek, due to the presence of the cluster -βδ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /cyˈβaβ.ða/ → /ciˈvav.ða/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈbab.da/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈβaβ.ða/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈvav.ða/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈvav.ða/

Noun

κυβάβδα • (kubábda)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

References

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