βούλιμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) +‎ λῑμός (līmós, “hunger”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bǔː.liː.mos/ → /ˈβu.li.mos/ → /ˈvu.li.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bǔː.liː.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.li.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβu.li.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvu.li.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvu.li.mos/

Noun

βούλῑμος • (boúlīmos) m or f (genitive βουλῑ́μου); second declension

1. ravenous hunger

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βούλῑμος; τοῦ βουλῑ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βούλῑμος ho boúlīmos	τὼ βουλῑ́μω tṑ boulī́mō	οἱ βούλῑμοι hoi boúlīmoi
Genitive	τοῦ βουλῑ́μου toû boulī́mou	τοῖν βουλῑ́μοιν toîn boulī́moin	τῶν βουλῑ́μων tôn boulī́mōn
Dative	τῷ βουλῑ́μῳ tôi boulī́mōi	τοῖν βουλῑ́μοιν toîn boulī́moin	τοῖς βουλῑ́μοις toîs boulī́mois
Accusative	τὸν βούλῑμον tòn boúlīmon	τὼ βουλῑ́μω tṑ boulī́mō	τοὺς βουλῑ́μους toùs boulī́mous
Vocative	βούλῑμε boúlīme	βουλῑ́μω boulī́mō	βούλῑμοι boúlīmoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βουλιμία (boulimía)
• βουλιμίασις (boulimíasis)
• βουλιμιάω (boulimiáō)
• βουλιμώδης (boulimṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Hebrew: בולמוס (bulmus/bulmos, “ravenous hunger”)

Further reading

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