κιβωτός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain, but probably from Pre-Greek. Has been connected with κίβισις (kíbisis, “sack”) and Latin cibus (“food”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kiː.bɔː.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ki.boˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ki.βoˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ci.voˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ci.voˈtos/
Noun
κῑβωτός • (kībōtós) f (genitive κῑβωτοῦ); second declension
- wooden box, chest, coffer
- Inscriptiones Graecae 150B.22
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῑβωτός hē kībōtós |
τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ |
αἱ κῑβωτοί hai kībōtoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῑβωτοῦ tês kībōtoû |
τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn |
τῶν κῑβωτῶν tôn kībōtôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῑβωτῷ têi kībōtôi |
τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn |
ταῖς κῑβωτοῖς taîs kībōtoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῑβωτόν tḕn kībōtón |
τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ |
τᾱ̀ς κῑβωτούς tā̀s kībōtoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῑβωτέ kībōté |
κῑβωτώ kībōtṓ |
κῑβωτοί kībōtoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κιβώτιον (kibṓtion)
- κιβωτίδιον (kibōtídion)
- κιβωτάριον (kibōtárion)
References
- κιβωτός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κιβωτός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κιβωτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2787 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek
Declension
declension of κιβωτός
singular | plural | |
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nominative | κιβωτός • | κιβωτοί • |
genitive | κιβωτού • | κιβωτών • |
accusative | κιβωτό • | κιβωτούς • |
vocative | κιβωτός • | κιβωτοί • |
Derived terms
- Κιβωτός του Νώε f (Kivotós tou Nóe, “Noah's Ark”)
- Κιβωτός της Διαθήκης f (Kivotós tis Diathíkis, “Ark of the Covenant”)
Further reading
κιβωτός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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