cybium

Latin

Alternative forms

• cybion

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύβιον (kúbion).

Noun

cybium n (genitive cybiī or cybī); second declension

1. A tunny fish
2. A dish made of pieces of the tunny fish salted and chopped

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cybium	cybia
Genitive	cybiī cybī1	cybiōrum
Dative	cybiō	cybiīs
Accusative	cybium	cybia
Ablative	cybiō	cybiīs
Vocative	cybium	cybia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “cybium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cybium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.