ἴβδης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek and possibly related to ἰβάνη (ibánē, “water bucket”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /íb.dɛːs/ → /ˈiβ.ðis/ → /ˈiv.ðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /íb.dɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈib.de̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈiβ.ðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈiv.ðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈiv.ðis/

Noun

ἴβδης • (íbdēs) m (genitive ἴβδου); first declension

1. cock or plug in a ship's bottom

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ἴβδης; τοῦ ἴβδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἴβδης ho íbdēs	τὼ ἴβδᾱ tṑ íbdā	οἱ ἴβδαι hoi íbdai
Genitive	τοῦ ἴβδου toû íbdou	τοῖν ἴβδαιν toîn íbdain	τῶν ἰβδῶν tôn ibdôn
Dative	τῷ ἴβδῃ tôi íbdēi	τοῖν ἴβδαιν toîn íbdain	τοῖς ἴβδαις toîs íbdais
Accusative	τὸν ἴβδην tòn íbdēn	τὼ ἴβδᾱ tṑ íbdā	τοὺς ἴβδᾱς toùs íbdās
Vocative	ἴβδη íbdē	ἴβδᾱ íbdā	ἴβδαι íbdai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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