Κάβειροι
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editUnknown, though unlikely to be related to Sanskrit कुबेर (kubera, “god of riches and treasure”). The root of the name has been suggested to be the same as that in Κάβαρνοι (Kábarnoi, “priests of Demeter”), indicating a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.beː.roi̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.bi.ry/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.βi.ry/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.vi.ry/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.vi.ri/
Noun
editΚᾰ́βειροι • (Kábeiroi) m pl (genitive Κᾰβείρων); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Cabeiri, a group of enigmatic chthonic deities worshipped especially in Samothrace, Lemnos and Boeotia
Inflection
editCase / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | οἱ Κᾰ́βειροι hoi Kábeiroi | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν Κᾰβείρων tôn Kabeírōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς Κᾰβείροις toîs Kabeírois | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τοὺς Κᾰβείρους toùs Kabeírous | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Κᾰ́βειροι Kábeiroi | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- Κᾰβείρῐᾰ (Kabeíria)
- Κᾰβειρῐ́ᾱ (Kabeiríā)
- Κᾰβειρῐᾰ́ζομαι (Kabeiriázomai)
- Κᾰβειρῐᾰ́ς (Kabeiriás)
- Κᾰβειρῐ́δες (Kabeirídes)
- Κᾰβειρῐκός (Kabeirikós)
- Κᾰβείρῐον (Kabeírion)
- Κᾰβειρώ (Kabeirṓ)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “Κάβειροι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Κάβειροι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Κάβειροι 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
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