κασαλβάς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κασσαβάς (kassabás)

Etymology

According to Beekes, a Pre-Greek word and clearly related to similar words like κασαύρα (kasaúra) and κασωρίς (kasōrís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.sal.bás/ → /ka.salˈβas/ → /ka.salˈvas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.sal.bás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.salˈbas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.salˈβas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.salˈvas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.salˈvas/

Noun

κᾰσαλβάς • (kasalbás) f (genitive κᾰσαλβάδος); third declension

1. strumpet

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κᾰσαλβᾰ́ς; τῆς κᾰσαλβᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰσαλβᾰ́ς hē kasalbás	τὼ κᾰσαλβᾰ́δε tṑ kasalbáde	αἱ κᾰσαλβᾰ́δες hai kasalbádes
Genitive	τῆς κᾰσαλβᾰ́δος tês kasalbádos	τοῖν κᾰσαλβᾰ́δοιν toîn kasalbádoin	τῶν κᾰσαλβᾰ́δων tôn kasalbádōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰσαλβᾰ́δῐ têi kasalbádi	τοῖν κᾰσαλβᾰ́δοιν toîn kasalbádoin	ταῖς κᾰσαλβᾰ́σῐ / κᾰσαλβᾰ́σῐν taîs kasalbási(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰσαλβᾰ́δᾰ tḕn kasalbáda	τὼ κᾰσαλβᾰ́δε tṑ kasalbáde	τᾱ̀ς κᾰσαλβᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s kasalbádas
Vocative	κᾰσαλβᾰ́ς kasalbás	κᾰσαλβᾰ́δε kasalbáde	κᾰσαλβᾰ́δες kasalbádes
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.

Derived terms

• κασαλβάζω (kasalbázō)
• κασάλβιον (kasálbion)

 

Further reading

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