κύρβεις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
As a technical expression, suspected of being a loan, perhaps from Pre-Greek. According to Beekes, the older connection with καρπός (karpós, “wrist”) is unacceptable. Fick and Kretschmer also adduced Κύρβαντες (Kúrbantes), which would have been named after their whirling dances.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kýr.beːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkyr.bis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcyr.βis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcyr.vis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcir.vis/
Proper noun
κῠ́ρβεις • (kúrbeis) f (genitive κῠ́ρβεων); third declension
- (at Athens) triangular tablets, forming a three-sided pyramid, turning on a pivot, upon which the early laws were inscribed
- (later) all pillars or tablets with inscriptions
- (figuratively) the Pillars of Hercules
- (figuratively) pettifogging lawyer, as if a walking statute book
Inflection
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | αἱ κῠ́ρβεις hai kúrbeis | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῶν κῠ́ρβεων tôn kúrbeōn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | ταῖς κῠ́ρβεσῐ / κῠ́ρβεσῐν taîs kúrbesi(n) | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τᾱ̀ς κῠ́ρβεις tā̀s kúrbeis | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | κῠ́ρβεις kúrbeis | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κύρβεις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κύρβεις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κύρβεις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κύρβεις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 806
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