Κάβειροι

English (LSJ)

[ᾰ], οἱ,

   A the Cabeiri, divinities worshipped especially in Lemnos, Samothrace, and Boeotia, Pi.Fr.74bSchr., Hdt.2.51, 3.37, Str.10.3.15, etc.; at Miletus, Nic.Dam.52J., Milet. (v. infr.), BCH1.288; title of play by Aeschylus, Ath.10.428f, Sch.Pi.P.4.303: sg., Κάβειρος Pi. l.c.; freq. in Boeotian Inscrr. (written -βιρ-), IG7.2457, al., cf. AP6.245 (Diod.), Q.S.1.267: Καβειρίδες Νύμφαι, and Καβειρώ, ἡ, the sisters and mother of the Cabeiri, Acus.20J., Pherecyd. 48 J.:—Adj. Καβειρικός, ή, όν, fem. Καβειριάς, άδος, Cabeiric, St. Byz.:—also Καβειραῖος, α, ον, Id., Paus.9.25.8: Καβειρία, ἡ, epith. of Demeter at Κάβειροι, Id.9.25.5 codd.: Καβείριον, τό, sanctuary of the C., Id.9.26.2; more correctly Καβείρ[ε]ιον IG11(2).144A90 (Delos, iv B.C.): Καβείρια, τά, their mysteries, Inscr.Perg.252, Hsch.:—hence Καβειριάζομαι, celebrate these mysteries, St.Byz.: Καβῑριάρχας, ὁ, IG7.2428 (Boeot.): Καβειριαρχίω ( -έω), ib.2420. (The spelling -βειρ- is correct, ib.11(2).l.c., Hdn.Gr.2.411: the form -βιρ- is Boeot. (v. supr.) and late Gr., Milet.6.26 (i A.D.), Alexio and Philox. ap. Et.Gud.289.30.) (The connexion with the Semitic root KBR 'great' (cf. the title Μεγάλοι Θεοί) is not certain; nor is that with Skt. Kúbera- (name of a divinity), fr. *Kabera-, cf. Patron. Kāberaká-.)