θῖβις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θίβη (thíbē), θίβῐς (thíbis), θίβωνος (thíbōnos), θίγωνος (thígōnos)

Etymology

A loan from Semitic. Compare Hebrew תֵּבָה (tēḇā, “ark, vessel”), Arabic تَابُوت (tābūt). Ultimately from Egyptian, for which see the last.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰí.bis/ → /ˈθi.βis/ → /ˈθi.vis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰí.bis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰi.bis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.βis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.vis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.vis/

Noun

θῖβῐς • (thîbis) f (genitive θῑ́βεως); third declension

1. basket plaited from papyrus
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 2.3

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ θῖβῐς; τῆς θῑ́βεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θῖβῐς hē thîbis	τὼ θῑ́βει tṑ thī́bei	αἱ θῑ́βεις hai thī́beis
Genitive	τῆς θῑ́βεως tês thī́beōs	τοῖν θῑβέοιν toîn thībéoin	τῶν θῑ́βεων tôn thī́beōn
Dative	τῇ θῑ́βει têi thī́bei	τοῖν θῑβέοιν toîn thībéoin	ταῖς θῑ́βεσῐ / θῑ́βεσῐν taîs thī́besi(n)
Accusative	τὴν θῖβῐν tḕn thîbin	τὼ θῑ́βει tṑ thī́bei	τᾱ̀ς θῑ́βεις tā̀s thī́beis
Vocative	θῖβῐ thîbi	θῑ́βει thī́bei	θῑ́βεις thī́beis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

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