χέρνιβον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χέρνιψ (khérnips, “water for ritual handwashing”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰér.ni.bon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰer.ni.bon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçer.ni.βon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçer.ni.von/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçer.ni.von/
Noun
χέρνῐβον • (khérnibon) n (genitive χερνίβου); second declension
- washbasin (for ritual handwashing)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ χέρνῐβον tò khérnibon |
τὼ χερνῐ́βω tṑ kherníbō |
τᾰ̀ χέρνῐβᾰ tà khérniba | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ χερνῐ́βου toû kherníbou |
τοῖν χερνῐ́βοιν toîn kherníboin |
τῶν χερνῐ́βων tôn kherníbōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ χερνῐ́βῳ tôi kherníbōi |
τοῖν χερνῐ́βοιν toîn kherníboin |
τοῖς χερνῐ́βοις toîs kherníbois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ χέρνῐβον tò khérnibon |
τὼ χερνῐ́βω tṑ kherníbō |
τᾰ̀ χέρνῐβᾰ tà khérniba | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χέρνῐβον khérnibon |
χερνῐ́βω kherníbō |
χέρνῐβᾰ khérniba | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Arabic: كِرْنِيب (kirnīb, “washbasin”)
Further reading
- “χέρνιβον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χέρνιβον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χέρνιβον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χέρνιβον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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