Κέβης

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ké.bɛːs/ → /ˈce.βis/ → /ˈce.vis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ké.bɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈke.be̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈce.βis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈce.vis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈce.vis/

Proper noun

Κέβης • (Kébēs) m (genitive Κέβητος); third declension

1. Cebes

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Κέβης; τοῦ Κέβητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Κέβης ho Kébēs
Genitive	τοῦ Κέβητος toû Kébētos
Dative	τῷ Κέβητῐ tôi Kébēti
Accusative	τὸν Κέβητᾰ tòn Kébēta
Vocative	Κέβης Kébēs
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Descendants

• Italian: Cebete
• Russian: Ке́бет (Kébet)

Further reading

• Κέβης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “Κέβης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011