Κάβειροι
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Κάβειροι. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Κάβειροι, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Κάβειροι in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Κάβειροι you have here. The definition of the word Κάβειροι will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofΚάβειροι, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown, though unlikely to be related to Sanskrit कुबेर (kubera, “god of riches and treasure”). The root of the name has been suggested to be the same as that in Κάβαρνοι (Kábarnoi, “priests of Demeter”), indicating a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.beː.roi̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.bi.ry/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.βi.ry/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.vi.ry/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.vi.ri/
Noun
Κᾰ́βειροι • (Kắbeiroi) m pl (genitive Κᾰβείρων); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Cabeiri, a group of enigmatic chthonic deities worshipped especially in Samothrace, Lemnos and Boeotia
Inflection
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | οἱ Κᾰ́βειροι hoi Kắbeiroi | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῶν Κᾰβείρων tôn Kăbeírōn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τοῖς Κᾰβείροις toîs Kăbeírois | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τοὺς Κᾰβείρους toùs Kăbeírous | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Κᾰ́βειροι Kắbeiroi | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
| ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- Κᾰβείρῐᾰ (Kăbeírĭă)
- Κᾰβειρῐ́ᾱ (Kăbeirĭ́ā)
- Κᾰβειρῐᾰ́ζομαι (Kăbeirĭắzomai)
- Κᾰβειρῐᾰ́ς (Kăbeirĭắs)
- Κᾰβειρῐ́δες (Kăbeirĭ́des)
- Κᾰβειρῐκός (Kăbeirĭkós)
- Κᾰβείρῐον (Kăbeírĭon)
- Κᾰβειρώ (Kăbeirṓ)
Descendants
Further reading
- “Κάβειροι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Κάβειροι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Κάβειροι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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