σίττυβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, this word is clearly Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sít.ty.bos/ → /ˈsit.ty.βos/ → /ˈsi.ti.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sít.ty.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.ty.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.ty.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.ty.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ti.vos/

Noun

σίττυβος • (síttubos) m (genitive σιττύβου); second declension

1. cauldron similar to a caccabus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σίττυβος; τοῦ σιττύβου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σίττυβος ho síttubos	τὼ σιττύβω tṑ sittúbō	οἱ σίττυβοι hoi síttuboi
Genitive	τοῦ σιττύβου toû sittúbou	τοῖν σιττύβοιν toîn sittúboin	τῶν σιττύβων tôn sittúbōn
Dative	τῷ σιττύβῳ tôi sittúbōi	τοῖν σιττύβοιν toîn sittúboin	τοῖς σιττύβοις toîs sittúbois
Accusative	τὸν σίττυβον tòn síttubon	τὼ σιττύβω tṑ sittúbō	τοὺς σιττύβους toùs sittúbous
Vocative	σίττυβε síttube	σιττύβω sittúbō	σίττυβοι síttuboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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