λέβης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λείβω.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

λέβης • (lébēs) m (genitive λέβητος); third declension

  1. kettle, cauldron
    Synonym: δευτήρ (deutḗr)

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ λέβης; τοῦ λέβητος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ λέβης
ho lébēs		 τὼ λέβητε
tṑ lébēte		 οἱ λέβητες
hoi lébētes
Genitive τοῦ λέβητος
toû lébētos		 τοῖν λεβήτοιν
toîn lebḗtoin		 τῶν λεβήτων
tôn lebḗtōn
Dative τῷ λέβητῐ
tôi lébēti		 τοῖν λεβήτοιν
toîn lebḗtoin		 τοῖς λέβησῐ / λέβησῐν
toîs lébēsi(n)
Accusative τὸν λέβητᾰ
tòn lébēta		 τὼ λέβητε
tṑ lébēte		 τοὺς λέβητᾰς
toùs lébētas
Vocative λέβης
lébēs		 λέβητε
lébēte		 λέβητες
lébētes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Derived terms
  • ἰπνολέβης (ipnolébēs)
  • λεβητάριον (lebētárion)
  • λεβητίζω (lebētízō)
  • λεβήτιον (lebḗtion)
  • λεβητίσκος (lebētískos)
  • λεβητώδης (lebētṓdēs)

Descendants
  • ⇒ Greek: λέβητας (lévitas)
  • → Latin: lebēs

Further reading
  • “λέβης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “λέβης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “λέβης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • λέβης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • λέβης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “λέβης”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • 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, →ISBN
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