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κυβεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυβεῖον κυβεῖου

Structure: κυβει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kubeu/w

Sense

  1. a gaming-house

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κυβεῖον κυβείω κυβεῖα
Genitive κυβείου κυβείοιν κυβείων
Dative κυβείῳ κυβείοιν κυβείοις
Accusative κυβεῖον κυβείω κυβεῖα
Vocative κυβεῖον κυβείω κυβεῖα

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

  • ὡσ γὰρ ἀπηλλάγη παρὰ τοῦ Ἀντικλέουσ καὶ τοῦ Μισγόλα Τίμαρχοσ οὑτοσί, οὐκ ἐνουθέτησεν ἑαυτόν, οὐδὲ βελτιόνων διατριβῶν ἥψατο, ἀλλὰ διημέρευεν ἐν τῷ κυβείῳ, οὗ ἡ τηλία τίθεται καὶ τοὺσ ἀλεκτρυόνασ συμβάλλουσιν καὶ κυβεύουσιν· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 534)

Synonyms

  1. a gaming-house

Similar forms

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

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