κύβος: Difference between revisions

|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.), [[cubic number]] (Pl., Arist.), <b class="b2">dice-like stone-, wood-block</b> (hell. pap. a. inscr.), [[cake]], [[piece of salted fish]] (com.); also [[vertebra]] (Rhian. 57; after [[ἀστράγαλος]]) and [[hollow above the hip of cattle]] (Ath. 9, 399b).<br />Compounds: Some compp., e.g. <b class="b3">φιλό-κυβος</b> [[who loves the dice]] (Ar., Arist.).<br />Derivatives: 1. [[κύβιον]] [[in the form of κύβοι salted fish]] (com., pap.) with [[κυβιάριον]] name of a belonging pot (pap) 2. [[κυβίας]] [[kind of tunny]] (Opp.; on the formation Chantr. Formation 94). 3. [[κυβοστόν]] n. name of a fraction (Dioph.; after [[εἰκοστόν]] etc.). 4. [[κυβεών]] m. [[gambling house]] (Tz.). 5. [[κυβικός]] [[quadrangular]] (Pl., Arist.). Denomin. verbs : 1. [[κυβεύω]] [[dice]], [[gamble]] (Att.), also [[deceive]] (Arr.), with [[κυβεία]] [[dice]], <b class="b3">κυβευ-τής</b> [[dicer]], <b class="b3">-τικός</b>, <b class="b3">-τήριον</b> (Att.). 2. [[κυβίζω]] [[raise to the cube]] (Hero) with [[κυβισμός]] (Theol. Ar.). 3. <b class="b3">κυβᾳ̃</b> H. as explanation of [[πεττεύει]].<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 [[κύβος]] 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 [[hollow above the hip of cattle]] [[κύβος]] 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 [[κύβος]] = [[τρύβλιον]] (Paph., H.) cf. the words s. [[κύπελλον]].