κυβέρνησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κυβερνάω (kubernáō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.bér.nɛː.sis/ → /cyˈβer.ni.sis/ → /ciˈver.ni.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.bér.nɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈber.ne̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈβer.ni.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈver.ni.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈver.ni.sis/

Noun

κῠβέρνησῐς • (kubérnēsis) f (genitive κῠβερνήσεως); third declension

1. steering, pilotage
2. government

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κῠβέρνησῐς; τῆς κῠβερνήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῠβέρνησῐς hē kubérnēsis	τὼ κῠβερνήσει tṑ kubernḗsei	αἱ κῠβερνήσεις hai kubernḗseis
Genitive	τῆς κῠβερνήσεως tês kubernḗseōs	τοῖν κῠβερνησέοιν toîn kubernēséoin	τῶν κῠβερνήσεων tôn kubernḗseōn
Dative	τῇ κῠβερνήσει têi kubernḗsei	τοῖν κῠβερνησέοιν toîn kubernēséoin	ταῖς κῠβερνήσεσῐ / κῠβερνήσεσῐν taîs kubernḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κῠβέρνησῐν tḕn kubérnēsin	τὼ κῠβερνήσει tṑ kubernḗsei	τᾱ̀ς κῠβερνήσεις tā̀s kubernḗseis
Vocative	κῠβέρνησῐ kubérnēsi	κῠβερνήσει kubernḗsei	κῠβερνήσεις kubernḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κυβέρνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κυβέρνησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κυβέρνησις 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
• G2941 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κυβέρνησις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • navigation idem, page 552.
  • pilotage idem, page 613.
  • steering idem, page 815.