Συβαρίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Súbaris, “Sybaris”) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sy.ba.rǐː.tɛːs/ → /sy.βaˈri.tis/ → /si.vaˈri.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sy.ba.rǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sy.baˈri.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sy.βaˈri.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sy.vaˈri.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.vaˈri.tis/

Noun

Σῠβᾰρῑ́της • (Subarī́tēs) m (genitive Σῠβᾰρῑ́του); first declension

1. an inhabitant of Sybaris; a Sybarite

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Σῠβᾰρῑ́της; τοῦ Σῠβᾰρῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Σῠβᾰρῑ́της ho Subarī́tēs	τὼ Σῠβᾰρῑ́τᾱ tṑ Subarī́tā	οἱ Σῠβᾰρῖται hoi Subarîtai
Genitive	τοῦ Σῠβᾰρῑ́του toû Subarī́tou	τοῖν Σῠβᾰρῑ́ταιν toîn Subarī́tain	τῶν Σῠβᾰρῑτῶν tôn Subarītôn
Dative	τῷ Σῠβᾰρῑ́τῃ tôi Subarī́tēi	τοῖν Σῠβᾰρῑ́ταιν toîn Subarī́tain	τοῖς Σῠβᾰρῑ́ταις toîs Subarī́tais
Accusative	τὸν Σῠβᾰρῑ́την tòn Subarī́tēn	τὼ Σῠβᾰρῑ́τᾱ tṑ Subarī́tā	τοὺς Σῠβᾰρῑ́τᾱς toùs Subarī́tās
Vocative	Σῠβᾰρῖτᾰ Subarîta	Σῠβᾰρῑ́τᾱ Subarī́tā	Σῠβᾰρῖται Subarîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σῠβᾰρῖτῐς (Subarîtis)
• Σῠβᾰρῑτῐκός (Subarītikós)

Descendants

• English: Sybarite
• Greek: Συβαρίτης (Syvarítis)
• Latin: Sybarītēs

References

• “Συβαρίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026