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/

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Noun

κῠ́βηλῐς • (kŭ́bēlĭs) 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 kŭ́bēlĭs	τὼ κῠβήλει tṑ kŭbḗlei	αἱ κῠβήλεις hai kŭbḗleis
Genitive	τῆς κῠβήλεως tês kŭbḗleōs	τοῖν κῠβηλέοιν toîn kŭbēléoin	τῶν κῠβήλεων tôn kŭbḗleōn
Dative	τῇ κῠβήλει têi kŭbḗlei	τοῖν κῠβηλέοιν toîn kŭbēléoin	ταῖς κῠβήλεσῐ / κῠβήλεσῐν taîs kŭbḗlesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κῠ́βηλῐν tḕn kŭ́bēlĭn	τὼ κῠβήλει tṑ kŭbḗlei	τᾱ̀ς κῠβήλεις tā̀s kŭbḗleis
Vocative	κῠ́βηλῐ kŭ́bēlĭ	κῠβήλει kŭbḗlei	κῠβήλεις kŭbḗleis
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