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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The ancients connected the word with κισσός (kissós, “ivy”), either after the material or after the ornamentation resembling ivy leaves. According to Beekes, the word is Pre-Greek, because of the variation β/φ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kis.sý.bi.on/ → /cisˈsy.βi.on/ → /ciˈsi.vi.on/
Noun
κῐσσῠ́βῐον • (kissúbion) n (genitive κῐσσῠβῐ́ου); second declension
- rustic drinking-cup of wood, used by the Cyclops
Inflection
Further reading
- “κισσύβιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κισσύβιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κισσύβιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κισσύβιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κισσύβιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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