τήβεννα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τήβεννος (tḗbennos)

Etymology

In antiquity, the word was derived from the Arcadian personal names Τήμενος (Tḗmenos) or Τήβεννος (Tḗbennos). Furnée showed that the word is Pre-Greek in view of the variations "β/μ" and "ν/νν".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̌ː.ben.na/ → /ˈti.βen.na/ → /ˈti.ve.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tɛ̌ː.ben.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈte̝.ben.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.βen.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ven.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ve.na/

Noun

τήβεννᾰ • (tḗbenna) f (genitive τηβέννης); first declension

1. garment of a distinguished person similar to a toga

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τήβεννᾰ; τῆς τηβέννης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τήβεννᾰ hē tḗbenna	τὼ τηβέννᾱ tṑ tēbénnā	αἱ τήβενναι hai tḗbennai
Genitive	τῆς τηβέννης tês tēbénnēs	τοῖν τηβένναιν toîn tēbénnain	τῶν τηβεννῶν tôn tēbennôn
Dative	τῇ τηβέννῃ têi tēbénnēi	τοῖν τηβένναιν toîn tēbénnain	ταῖς τηβένναις taîs tēbénnais
Accusative	τὴν τήβεννᾰν tḕn tḗbennan	τὼ τηβέννᾱ tṑ tēbénnā	τᾱ̀ς τηβέννᾱς tā̀s tēbénnās
Vocative	τήβεννᾰ tḗbenna	τηβέννᾱ tēbénnā	τήβενναι tḗbennai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τηβέννειος (tēbénneios)
• τηβεννικός (tēbennikós)
• τηβεννίς (tēbennís)
• τηβεννοφορέω (tēbennophoréō)

 

Further reading

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