κωβιός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, probably a loan from Pre-Greek. Furnée compares Akkadian 𒆪𒇥 (kuppū, “kind of fish”), suggesting a Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔː.bi.ós/ → /ko.βiˈos/ → /ko.viˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔː.bi.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.biˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.βiˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.viˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.viˈos/

Noun

κωβῐός • (kōbiós) m (genitive κωβῐοῦ); second declension

1. sort of fish of the gudgeon kind

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κωβῐός; τοῦ κωβῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κωβῐός ho kōbiós	τὼ κωβῐώ tṑ kōbiṓ	οἱ κωβῐοί hoi kōbioí
Genitive	τοῦ κωβῐοῦ toû kōbioû	τοῖν κωβῐοῖν toîn kōbioîn	τῶν κωβῐῶν tôn kōbiôn
Dative	τῷ κωβῐῷ tôi kōbiôi	τοῖν κωβῐοῖν toîn kōbioîn	τοῖς κωβῐοῖς toîs kōbioîs
Accusative	τὸν κωβῐόν tòn kōbión	τὼ κωβῐώ tṑ kōbiṓ	τοὺς κωβῐούς toùs kōbioús
Vocative	κωβῐέ kōbié	κωβῐώ kōbiṓ	κωβῐοί kōbioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κωβίδον (kōbídon)
• κωβῖτις (kōbîtis)
• κωβιώδης (kōbiṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: gōbius (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: goby
• → Translingual: Gobius
• Greek: γωβιός (goviós), γουβίδι (gouvídi)
  • → Romanian: guvid

Further reading

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