κιννάβαρι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κιννάβαρις (kinnábaris)

Etymology

According to Beekes, a foreign word, probably of Oriental origin.
Perhaps from Arabic زنجفرة‎ (zinjifra), a borrowing from Persian ‎ (shangarf), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kin.ná.ba.ri/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kinˈna.ba.ri/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kinˈna.βa.ri/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cinˈna.va.ri/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈna.va.ri/

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Noun

κιννάβαρῐ • (kinnábari) n (genitive κινναβάρεως); third declension

cinnabar, bisulphuret of mercury
vermilion

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κιννάβαρῐ; τοῦ κινναβάρεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κιννάβαρῐ tò kinnábari	τὼ κινναβάρει tṑ kinnabárei	τᾰ̀ κινναβάρη / κινναβάρεᾰ tà kinnabárē / kinnabárea
Genitive	τοῦ κινναβάρεως toû kinnabáreōs	τοῖν κινναβαρέοιν toîn kinnabaréoin	τῶν κινναβάρεων tôn kinnabáreōn
Dative	τῷ κινναβάρει tôi kinnabárei	τοῖν κινναβαρέοιν toîn kinnabaréoin	τοῖς κινναβάρεσῐ / κινναβάρεσῐν toîs kinnabáresi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κιννάβαρῐ tò kinnábari	τὼ κινναβάρει tṑ kinnabárei	τᾰ̀ κινναβάρη / κινναβάρεᾰ tà kinnabárē / kinnabárea
Vocative	κιννάβαρῐ kinnábari	κινναβάρει kinnabárei	κινναβάρη / κινναβάρεᾰ kinnabárē / kinnabárea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

κινναβαρίζω (kinnabarízō)
κινναβάρινος (kinnabárinos)
κινναβάριον (kinnabárion)

Descendants

English: cinnabar
French: cinabre
German: Zinnober
Italian: cinabro

Synonyms

ψάδδα (psádda)

References

κιννάβαρι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κιννάβαρι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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

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