κιβωτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From an original *τīβωτός (*tībōtós), from Aramaic תֵּיבוֹתָא (tēḇōṯā), from a merger of Egyptian

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(ḏbꜣt, “sarcophagus, coffin”) and

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(dbt, “chest, box”), as also synonymous Arabic تَابُوت (tābūt) and Hebrew תֵּבָה (tēḇā́).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κῑβωτός • (kībōtós) f (genitive κῑβωτοῦ); second declension

  1. wooden box, chest, coffer

Inflection
Second declension of ἡ κῑβωτός; τῆς κῑβωτοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
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
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • κιβωτάριον (kibōtárion)
  • κιβωτίδιον (kibōtídion)
  • κιβώτιον (kibṓtion)

Further reading
  • “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
  • Hoffmann, Georg (1878) “Bibliographische Anzeigen: I Gregorii Bar Ebhraya in evangelium Iohannis commentarius. E Thesauro mysteriorum desumptum edidit R. Schwartz. Gottingae, in aedibus Dietrichianis. MDCCCLXXVIII. 28 pp. 8. II Gregorii Abulfaragii Bar Ebhraya in actus apostolorum et epistulas catholicas adnotationes Syriace e recognitione Martini Klamroth. Diss. inaug. Gottingae, in aedibus Dietrichianis. MDCCCLXXVIII. 30 pp. 8”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 32, page 748 footnote 1
  • G2787 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • 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

Greek

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ci.voˈtos/
  • Hyphenation: κι‧βω‧τός

Noun

κιβωτός • (kivotós) f (plural κιβωτοί)

  1. preserver

Declension
declension of κιβωτός
case     \     number singular plural
nominative κιβωτός • κιβωτοί •
genitive κιβωτού • κιβωτών •
accusative κιβωτό • κιβωτούς •
vocative κιβωτέ •,  κιβωτό • κιβωτοί •

Derived terms
  • κιβώτιο n (kivótio, “box, container”)
  • εγκιβωτίζω (egkivotízo)

Further reading
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