κυρβασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Median *kurpasyah. The final part of the word is from a term cognate with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬯- (pas-, “to bind”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kyr.ba.sí.aː/ → /cyr.βaˈsi.a/ → /cir.vaˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kyr.ba.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyr.baˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyr.βaˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyr.vaˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /cir.vaˈsi.a/

Noun

κυρβᾰσίᾱ • (kurbăsíā) f (genitive κυρβᾰσίᾱς); first declension

1. a Persian bonnet or hat, with a peaked crown

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κυρβᾰσίᾱ; τῆς κυρβᾰσίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κυρβᾰσίᾱ hē kurbăsíā	τὼ κυρβᾰσίᾱ tṑ kurbăsíā	αἱ κυρβᾰσίαι hai kurbăsíai
Genitive	τῆς κυρβᾰσίᾱς tês kurbăsíās	τοῖν κυρβᾰσίαιν toîn kurbăsíain	τῶν κυρβᾰσιῶν tôn kurbăsiôn
Dative	τῇ κυρβᾰσίᾳ têi kurbăsíāi	τοῖν κυρβᾰσίαιν toîn kurbăsíain	ταῖς κυρβᾰσίαις taîs kurbăsíais
Accusative	τὴν κυρβᾰσίᾱν tḕn kurbăsíān	τὼ κυρβᾰσίᾱ tṑ kurbăsíā	τᾱ̀ς κυρβᾰσίᾱς tā̀s kurbăsíās
Vocative	κυρβᾰσίᾱ kurbăsíā	κυρβᾰσίᾱ kurbăsíā	κυρβᾰσίαι kurbăsíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “κυρβασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κυρβασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κυρβασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette