κύβηλις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained, but probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.bɛː.lis/ → /ˈcy.βi.lis/ → /ˈci.vi.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.bɛː.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.be̝.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.βi.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.vi.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.vi.lis/

Noun

κῠ́βηλῐς • (kúbēlis) f (genitive κῠβήλεως); third declension

1. axe, cleaver, large knife with which cattle were slain

   Synonym: κοπίς (kopís)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κῠ́βηλῐς; τῆς κῠβήλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῠ́βηλῐς hē kúbēlis	τὼ κῠβήλει tṑ kubḗlei	αἱ κῠβήλεις hai kubḗleis
Genitive	τῆς κῠβήλεως tês kubḗleōs	τοῖν κῠβηλέοιν toîn kubēléoin	τῶν κῠβήλεων tôn kubḗleōn
Dative	τῇ κῠβήλει têi kubḗlei	τοῖν κῠβηλέοιν toîn kubēléoin	ταῖς κῠβήλεσῐ / κῠβήλεσῐν taîs kubḗlesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κῠ́βηλῐν tḕn kúbēlin	τὼ κῠβήλει tṑ kubḗlei	τᾱ̀ς κῠβήλεις tā̀s kubḗleis
Vocative	κῠ́βηλῐ kúbēli	κῠβήλει kubḗlei	κῠβήλεις kubḗleis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυβηλίζω (kubēlízō)
• κυβηλικός (kubēlikós)

 

Further reading

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