κλωβός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κλουβός (kloubós)

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Semitic. Compare Hebrew כְּלוּב (kluv), Arabic كَلْبِشْ (kalbiš) and Old Armenian կողով (kołov).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /klɔː.bós/ → /kloˈβos/ → /kloˈvos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /klɔː.bós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kloˈbos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kloˈβos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kloˈvos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kloˈvos/

Noun

κλωβός • (klōbós) m (genitive κλωβοῦ); second declension

1. birdcage

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κλωβός; τοῦ κλωβοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κλωβός ho klōbós	τὼ κλωβώ tṑ klōbṓ	οἱ κλωβοί hoi klōboí
Genitive	τοῦ κλωβοῦ toû klōboû	τοῖν κλωβοῖν toîn klōboîn	τῶν κλωβῶν tôn klōbôn
Dative	τῷ κλωβῷ tôi klōbôi	τοῖν κλωβοῖν toîn klōboîn	τοῖς κλωβοῖς toîs klōboîs
Accusative	τὸν κλωβόν tòn klōbón	τὼ κλωβώ tṑ klōbṓ	τοὺς κλωβούς toùs klōboús
Vocative	κλωβέ klōbé	κλωβώ klōbṓ	κλωβοί klōboí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κλωβίον (klōbíon)

Descendants

• Greek: κλωβός (klovós)

Further reading

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