κυβιάριον

κυβιάριον, τό,

A crate of salt fish, POxy.1657.9 (iii B.C.).

Grammatical information: m.

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.), `dice-like stone-, wood-block' (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).

Compounds: Some compp., e.g. φιλό-κυβος `who loves the dice' (Ar., Arist.).

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', κυβευ-τής `dicer', - τικός, - τήριον (Att.). 2. κυβίζω `raise to the cube' (Hero) with κυβισμός ( Theol. Ar.). 3. κυβᾳ̃ H. as explanation of πεττεύει.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

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.

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