βοτάνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βόσκω (bóskō, “to feed, tend”) +‎ -ᾰ́νη (-ánē, instrument noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bo.tá.nɛː/ → /βoˈta.ni/ → /voˈta.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bo.tá.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /boˈta.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βoˈta.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /voˈta.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /voˈta.ni/

Noun

βοτᾰ́νη • (botánē) f (genitive βοτᾰ́νης); first declension

1. grass, fodder, pasture
2. herb

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βοτᾰ́νη; τῆς βοτᾰ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βοτᾰ́νη hē botánē	τὼ βοτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ botánā	αἱ βοτᾰ́ναι hai botánai
Genitive	τῆς βοτᾰ́νης tês botánēs	τοῖν βοτᾰ́ναιν toîn botánain	τῶν βοτᾰνῶν tôn botanôn
Dative	τῇ βοτᾰ́νῃ têi botánēi	τοῖν βοτᾰ́ναιν toîn botánain	ταῖς βοτᾰ́ναις taîs botánais
Accusative	τὴν βοτᾰ́νην tḕn botánēn	τὼ βοτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ botánā	τᾱ̀ς βοτᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s botánās
Vocative	βοτᾰ́νη botánē	βοτᾰ́νᾱ botánā	βοτᾰ́ναι botánai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βοτανικός (botanikós)
• ἱεροβοτάνη (hierobotánē)

 

Further reading

• “βοτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βοτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βοτάνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βοτάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βοτάνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βοτάνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1008 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• βοτάνη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fodder idem, page 331.
  • grass idem, page 370.
  • pasture idem, page 598.
  • provender idem, page 654.
  • turf idem, page 901.