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κισσύβιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κισσύβιον κισσύβιου

Structure: κισσυβι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kisso/s

Sense

  1. a rustic drinking-cup, ivy-wreath

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κισσύβιον κισσυβίω κισσύβια
Genitive κισσυβίου κισσυβίοιν κισσυβίων
Dative κισσυβίῳ κισσυβίοιν κισσυβίοις
Accusative κισσύβιον κισσυβίω κισσύβια
Vocative κισσύβιον κισσυβίω κισσύβια

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἶδα γὰρ ὡσ χρὴ ἐγχέαι τὸ γάλα καὶ ἀναδοῦναι τὸ κισσύβιον. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 7:4)
  • καὶ αὐτὸσ μὲν ἔκεισο μεθύων ἤδη, κισσύβιον ἔχων ἐν τῇ χειρί, βινητιῶν Πολύφημοσ, νεανίασ δὲ ὑπόμισθοσ ὀρθὸν ἔχων τὸν μοχλὸν εὖ μάλα ἠκονημένον ἐπὶ σὲ Ὀδυσσεύσ τισ ἐπῄει ὡσ ἐκκόψων τὸν ὀφθαλμόν κἀκείνου μὲν ἅμαρτε, παραὶ δέ οἱ ἐτράπετ’ ἔγχοσ, αἰχμὴ δ’ ἐξεσύθη ^ παρὰ νείατον ἀνθερεῶνα. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 24:6)
  • ’ ἐν τούτοισ ἀγνοεῖν ἐοίκεν ὁ Χαμαιλέων ὅτι οὔκ ἐστι μικρὸν τὸ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ διδόμενον τῷ Κύκλωπι ὑπ’ ’ Ὀδυσσέωσ κισσύβιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 4 3:4)
  • κισσύβιον τὸ μόνωτον ποτήριον Φιλήμων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 531)
  • τὸ γὰρ κισσύβιον, φησί, λέγεται ἐπὶ συνόδου ἀγροικικῆσ, ἔνθα προσήκει μάλιστα τὸ ξύλινον ποτήριον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 53 1:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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