κουβαρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. Perhaps related to Greek κουβάρι (kouvári, “clew”) and sharing the meaning of "something that rolls itself together".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kuː.ba.rís/ → /ku.βaˈris/ → /ku.vaˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kuː.ba.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ku.baˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ku.βaˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ku.vaˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ku.vaˈris/

Noun

κουβᾰρῐ́ς • (koubarís) f (genitive κουβᾰρῐ́δος); third declension

1. woodlouse

   Synonym: ὀνίσκος (onískos)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κουβᾰρῐ́ς; τῆς κουβᾰρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κουβᾰρῐ́ς hē koubarís	τὼ κουβᾰρῐ́δε tṑ koubaríde	αἱ κουβᾰρῐ́δες hai koubarídes
Genitive	τῆς κουβᾰρῐ́δος tês koubarídos	τοῖν κουβᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn koubarídoin	τῶν κουβᾰρῐ́δων tôn koubarídōn
Dative	τῇ κουβᾰρῐ́δῐ têi koubarídi	τοῖν κουβᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn koubarídoin	ταῖς κουβᾰρῐ́σῐ / κουβᾰρῐ́σῐν taîs koubarísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κουβᾰρῐ́δᾰ tḕn koubarída	τὼ κουβᾰρῐ́δε tṑ koubaríde	τᾱ̀ς κουβᾰρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s koubarídas
Vocative	κουβᾰρῐ́ς koubarís	κουβᾰρῐ́δε koubaríde	κουβᾰρῐ́δες koubarídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

References

• “κουβαρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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, →ISBN