Κίμβρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Proto-Indo-European origin, but whether the name came through Celtic or Germanic is uncertain; possibly *tḱey- (“to settle, to live”).[1] More at Cimbri. Compare English Cimmerian. Not related to Welsh Cymry.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

Κίμβρος • (Kímbros) m (genitive Κίμβρου); second declension

  1. an individual member of the Cimbri; a Cimbrian

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Κῐ́μβρος; τοῦ Κῐ́μβρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ Κῐ́μβρος
ho Kímbros		 τὼ Κῐ́μβρω
tṑ Kímbrō		 οἱ Κῐ́μβροι
hoi Kímbroi
Genitive τοῦ Κῐ́μβρου
toû Kímbrou		 τοῖν Κῐ́μβροιν
toîn Kímbroin		 τῶν Κῐ́μβρων
tôn Kímbrōn
Dative τῷ Κῐ́μβρῳ
tôi Kímbrōi		 τοῖν Κῐ́μβροιν
toîn Kímbroin		 τοῖς Κῐ́μβροις
toîs Kímbrois
Accusative τὸν Κῐ́μβρον
tòn Kímbron		 τὼ Κῐ́μβρω
tṑ Kímbrō		 τοὺς Κῐ́μβρους
toùs Kímbrous
Vocative Κῐ́μβρε
Kímbre		 Κῐ́μβρω
Kímbrō		 Κῐ́μβροι
Kímbroi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Κιμβρικός (Kimbrikós)

Descendants

References
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,006
  1. Vasmer, Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 1958, vol. 3, p. 62; Z. Gołąb, "About the connection between kinship terms and some ethnica in Slavic", International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 25-26 (1982) 166-7
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