κιβωτός
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From an original *τīβωτός (*tībōtós), from Aramaic תֵּיבוֹתָא (tēḇōṯā), from a merger of Egyptian
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(ḏbꜣt, “sarcophagus, coffin”) and
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(dbt, “chest, box”), as also synonymous Arabic تَابُوت (tābūt) and Hebrew תֵּבָה (tēḇā́).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kiː.bɔː.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ki.boˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ci.βoˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ci.voˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ci.voˈtos/
Noun edit
κῑβωτός • (kībōtós) f (genitive κῑβωτοῦ); second declension
- wooden box, chest, coffer
- Inscriptiones Graecae 150B.22
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῑβωτός hē kībōtós |
τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ |
αἱ κῑβωτοί hai kībōtoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῑβωτοῦ tês kībōtoû |
τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn |
τῶν κῑβωτῶν tôn kībōtôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῑβωτῷ têi kībōtôi |
τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn |
ταῖς κῑβωτοῖς taîs kībōtoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῑβωτόν tḕn kībōtón |
τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ |
τᾱ̀ς κῑβωτούς tā̀s kībōtoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῑβωτέ kībōté |
κῑβωτώ kībōtṓ |
κῑβωτοί kībōtoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- κιβωτάριον (kibōtárion)
- κιβωτίδιον (kibōtídion)
- κιβώτιον (kibṓtion)
Further reading edit
- “κιβωτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κιβωτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κιβωτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Hoffmann, Georg (1878) “Bibliographische Anzeigen: I Gregorii Bar Ebhraya in evangelium Iohannis commentarius. E Thesauro mysteriorum desumptum edidit R. Schwartz. Gottingae, in aedibus Dietrichianis. MDCCCLXXVIII. 28 pp. 8. II Gregorii Abulfaragii Bar Ebhraya in actus apostolorum et epistulas catholicas adnotationes Syriace e recognitione Martini Klamroth. Diss. inaug. Gottingae, in aedibus Dietrichianis. MDCCCLXXVIII. 30 pp. 8”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[1] (in German), volume 32, page 748 footnote 1
- G2787 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
κιβωτός • (kivotós) f (plural κιβωτοί)
Declension edit
declension of κιβωτός
Derived terms edit
- Κιβωτός του Νώε f (Kivotós tou Nóe, “Noah's Ark”)
- Κιβωτός της Διαθήκης f (Kivotós tis Diathíkis, “Ark of the Covenant”)
Related terms edit
- κιβώτιο n (kivótio, “box, container”)
- εγκιβωτίζω (egkivotízo)
Further reading edit
- κιβωτός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el