τιβήν

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τίβηνος (tíbēnos)

Etymology

Furnée connects θῖβις (thîbis, “basket”), which he derives from a Semitic source. He remarks that the suffix -ην points to Anatolian origin, which may perhaps indicate that the word is Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ti.bɛ̌ːn/ → /tiˈβin/ → /tiˈvin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ti.bɛ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe̝n/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈβin/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈvin/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈvin/

Noun

τῐβήν • (tibḗn) m (genitive τῐβῆνος); third declension

1. tripod, three-legged cauldron

   Synonym: τρίπους (trípous)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ τῐβήν; τοῦ τῐβῆνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τῐβήν ho tibḗn	τὼ τῐβῆνε tṑ tibêne	οἱ τῐβῆνες hoi tibênes
Genitive	τοῦ τῐβῆνος toû tibênos	τοῖν τῐβήνοιν toîn tibḗnoin	τῶν τῐβήνων tôn tibḗnōn
Dative	τῷ τῐβῆνῐ tôi tibêni	τοῖν τῐβήνοιν toîn tibḗnoin	τοῖς τῐβῆσῐ / τῐβῆσῐν toîs tibêsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν τῐβῆνᾰ tòn tibêna	τὼ τῐβῆνε tṑ tibêne	τοὺς τῐβῆνᾰς toùs tibênas
Vocative	τῐβήν tibḗn	τῐβῆνε tibêne	τῐβῆνες tibênes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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