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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[dice]] (IA.), also of the eyes of the dice (E., Pl.) and the gaming table (Hermipp. 27, pl.); metaph. of dice-like objects, [[cubus]] (Ti. Lokr.), <b class="b2">cubic number</b> (Pl., Arist.), <b class="b2">dice-like stone-, wood-block</b> (hell. pap. a. inscr.), <b class="b2">cake, piece of salted fish</b> (com.); also [[vertebra]] (Rhian. 57; after <b class="b3">ἀστράγαλος</b>) and <b class="b2">hollow above the hip of cattle</b> (Ath. 9, 399b).<br />Compounds: Some compp., e.g. <b class="b3">φιλό-κυβος</b> <b class="b2">who loves the dice</b> (Ar., Arist.).<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">κύβιον</b> <b class="b2">in the form of κύβοι salted fish</b> (com., pap.) with <b class="b3">κυβιάριον</b> name of a belonging pot (pap) 2. <b class="b3">κυβίας</b> <b class="b2">kind of tunny</b> (Opp.; on the formation Chantr. Formation 94). 3. <b class="b3">κυβοστόν</b> n. name of a fraction (Dioph.; after <b class="b3">εἰκοστόν</b> etc.). 4. <b class="b3">κυβεών</b> m. <b class="b2">gambling house</b> (Tz.). 5. <b class="b3">κυβικός</b> [[quadrangular]] (Pl., Arist.). Denomin. verbs : 1. <b class="b3">κυβεύω</b> [[dice]], [[gamble]] (Att.), also [[deceive]] (Arr.), with <b class="b3">κυβεία</b> [[dice]], <b class="b3">κυβευ-τής</b> [[dicer]], <b class="b3">-τικός</b>, <b class="b3">-τήριον</b> (Att.). 2. <b class="b3">κυβίζω</b> <b class="b2">raise to the cube</b> (Hero) with <b class="b3">κυβισμός</b> (Theol. Ar.). 3. <b class="b3">κυβᾳ̃</b> H. as explanation of <b class="b3">πεττεύει</b>.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: The names vary from language to language and are often loans (Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 423). Also <b class="b3">κύβος</b> will be a foreign word (Schwyzer 458); after Hdt. 1, 94 the Lydians claimed to have invented the game. Lat. LW [loanword] [[cubus]]. - Because of the incidental meaning <b class="b2">hollow above the hip of cattle</b> <b class="b3">κύβος</b> was with wrong idea of the development of the meaning connected with Germ., e.g. Goth. [[hups]] [[hip]] (Lat. [[cubitus]] [[elbow]]), Bq, WP. 1, 373f., Pok. 589f., W.-Hofmann s. [[cubitus]]; rejected by Kretschmer KZ 55, 89). - On <b class="b3">κύβος</b> = <b class="b3">τρύβλιον</b> (Paph., H.) cf. the words s. <b class="b3">κύπελλον</b>. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[dice]] (IA.), also of the eyes of the dice (E., Pl.) and the gaming table (Hermipp. 27, pl.); metaph. of dice-like objects, [[cubus]] (Ti. Lokr.), <b class="b2">cubic number</b> (Pl., Arist.), <b class="b2">dice-like stone-, wood-block</b> (hell. pap. a. inscr.), <b class="b2">cake, piece of salted fish</b> (com.); also [[vertebra]] (Rhian. 57; after <b class="b3">ἀστράγαλος</b>) and <b class="b2">hollow above the hip of cattle</b> (Ath. 9, 399b).<br />Compounds: Some compp., e.g. <b class="b3">φιλό-κυβος</b> <b class="b2">who loves the dice</b> (Ar., Arist.).<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">κύβιον</b> <b class="b2">in the form of κύβοι salted fish</b> (com., pap.) with <b class="b3">κυβιάριον</b> name of a belonging pot (pap) 2. <b class="b3">κυβίας</b> <b class="b2">kind of tunny</b> (Opp.; on the formation Chantr. Formation 94). 3. <b class="b3">κυβοστόν</b> n. name of a fraction (Dioph.; after <b class="b3">εἰκοστόν</b> etc.). 4. <b class="b3">κυβεών</b> m. <b class="b2">gambling house</b> (Tz.). 5. <b class="b3">κυβικός</b> [[quadrangular]] (Pl., Arist.). Denomin. verbs : 1. <b class="b3">κυβεύω</b> [[dice]], [[gamble]] (Att.), also [[deceive]] (Arr.), with <b class="b3">κυβεία</b> [[dice]], <b class="b3">κυβευ-τής</b> [[dicer]], <b class="b3">-τικός</b>, <b class="b3">-τήριον</b> (Att.). 2. <b class="b3">κυβίζω</b> <b class="b2">raise to the cube</b> (Hero) with <b class="b3">κυβισμός</b> (Theol. Ar.). 3. <b class="b3">κυβᾳ̃</b> H. as explanation of <b class="b3">πεττεύει</b>.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: The names vary from language to language and are often loans (Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 423). Also <b class="b3">κύβος</b> will be a foreign word (Schwyzer 458); after Hdt. 1, 94 the Lydians claimed to have invented the game. Lat. LW [loanword] [[cubus]]. - Because of the incidental meaning <b class="b2">hollow above the hip of cattle</b> <b class="b3">κύβος</b> was with wrong idea of the development of the meaning connected with Germ., e.g. Goth. [[hups]] [[hip]] (Lat. [[cubitus]] [[elbow]]), Bq, WP. 1, 373f., Pok. 589f., W.-Hofmann s. [[cubitus]]; rejected by Kretschmer KZ 55, 89). - On <b class="b3">κύβος</b> = <b class="b3">τρύβλιον</b> (Paph., H.) cf. the words s. <b class="b3">κύπελλον</b>. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=!κύ˘βος, ὁ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> Lat. [[cubus]], a [[cube]]: a [[cubical]] die, marked on all 6 sides ([[whereas]] the [[ἀστράγαλος]] was marked only on [[four]] sides), in pl., [[dice]], Hdt., etc.; the Greeks threw with [[three]] [[dice]], so that τρὶς ἕξ, [[three]] sixes, was the [[highest]] [[throw]], Aesch., Plat.; κρίνειν τι ἐν κύβοις to [[decide]] it by the [[dice]], by [[chance]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> also of the [[single]] pips on the [[dice]], βέβληκ' Ἀχιλλεὺς δύο κύβω καὶ [[τέσσαρα]] he has thrown two aces and a [[four]], Aesch. ap. Ar.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a cubic [[number]], i. e. a [[number]] multiplied [[twice]] [[into]] itself, as 27 is the [[cube]] of 3, Plat. | |||
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