βοθρίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βόθρος (bóthros, “trench, pit”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bo.tʰrí.on/ → /βoˈθri.on/ → /voˈθri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bo.tʰrí.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /boˈtʰri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βoˈθri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /voˈθri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /voˈθri.on/

Noun

βοθρῐ́ον • (bothríon) n (genitive βοθρῐ́ου); second declension

1. small trench to set plants in
2. (medicine) small ulcer
   1. (anatomy) (in plural) small sockets of the teeth

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ βοθρῐ́ον; τοῦ βοθρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βοθρῐ́ον tò bothríon	τὼ βοθρῐ́ω tṑ bothríō	τᾰ̀ βοθρῐ́ᾰ tà bothría
Genitive	τοῦ βοθρῐ́ου toû bothríou	τοῖν βοθρῐ́οιν toîn bothríoin	τῶν βοθρῐ́ων tôn bothríōn
Dative	τῷ βοθρῐ́ῳ tôi bothríōi	τοῖν βοθρῐ́οιν toîn bothríoin	τοῖς βοθρῐ́οις toîs bothríois
Accusative	τὸ βοθρῐ́ον tò bothríon	τὼ βοθρῐ́ω tṑ bothríō	τᾰ̀ βοθρῐ́ᾰ tà bothría
Vocative	βοθρῐ́ον bothríon	βοθρῐ́ω bothríō	βοθρῐ́ᾰ bothría
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• ⇒ Translingual: Diphyllobothrium

References

• “βοθρίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βοθρίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βοθρίον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)