κιβωτός

Ancient Greek

Uncertain, but probably from Pre-Greek. Has been connected with κίβισις (kíbisis, “sack”) and Latin cibus (“food”).

κῑβωτός • (kībōtós) f (genitive κῑβωτοῦ); second declension

Second declension of ἡ κῑβωτός; τῆς κῑβωτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῑβωτός hē kībōtós	τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ	αἱ κῑβωτοί hai kībōtoí
Genitive	τῆς κῑβωτοῦ tês kībōtoû	τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn	τῶν κῑβωτῶν tôn kībōtôn
Dative	τῇ κῑβωτῷ têi kībōtôi	τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn	ταῖς κῑβωτοῖς taîs kībōtoîs
Accusative	τὴν κῑβωτόν tḕn kībōtón	τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ	τᾱ̀ς κῑβωτούς tā̀s kībōtoús
Vocative	κῑβωτέ kībōté	κῑβωτώ kībōtṓ	κῑβωτοί kībōtoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

κιβωτός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κιβωτός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κιβωτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G2787 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- box idem, page 92.
- chest idem, page 129.
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

κιβωτός • (kivotós) f (plural κιβωτοί)

declension of κιβωτός