cybium

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύβιον (kúbion).

Noun

cybium n (genitive cybiī or cybī); second declension

  1. A tunny fish
  2. A dish made of pieces of the tunny fish salted and chopped

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative cybium cybia
genitive cybiī
cybī1 		cybiōrum
dative cybiō cybiīs
accusative cybium cybia
ablative cybiō cybiīs
vocative cybium cybia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  • “cybium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cybium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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