βουκόλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *gʷoukólos, whence also Mycenaean Greek 𐀦𐀄𐀒𐀫 (qo-u-ko-ro /⁠gʷowkolos⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷow-kólos, from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷól-os (“herder”), from *kʷel- (“to turn, to cultivate”). This Proto-Indo-European *gʷow-kólos shows the phonological labial dissimilation known as the eponymous boukólos rule. Compare Proto-Celtic *boukolyos.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /buː.kó.los/ → /βuˈko.los/ → /vuˈko.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /buː.kó.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /buˈko.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βuˈko.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vuˈko.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vuˈko.los/

Noun

βουκόλος • (boukólos) m (genitive βουκόλου); second declension

1. A person who tends cattle: cowherd
2. A follower of Dionysus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βουκόλος; τοῦ βουκόλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βουκόλος ho boukólos	τὼ βουκόλω tṑ boukólō	οἱ βουκόλοι hoi boukóloi
Genitive	τοῦ βουκόλου toû boukólou	τοῖν βουκόλοιν toîn boukóloin	τῶν βουκόλων tôn boukólōn
Dative	τῷ βουκόλῳ tôi boukólōi	τοῖν βουκόλοιν toîn boukóloin	τοῖς βουκόλοις toîs boukólois
Accusative	τὸν βουκόλον tòn boukólon	τὼ βουκόλω tṑ boukólō	τοὺς βουκόλους toùs boukólous
Vocative	βουκόλε boukóle	βουκόλω boukólō	βουκόλοι boukóloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βουκολικός (boukolikós)
• ἐπιβουκόλος (epiboukólos)

 

Descendants

• English: boukólos rule

Further reading

• “βουκόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βουκόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βουκόλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βουκόλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βουκόλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βουκόλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • grazier idem, page 371.
  • herdsman idem, page 397.