βοῦς

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• βῶς (bôs) – Doric

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Hellenic *gʷous, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Cognates include Old English cū (English cow), Latin bōs, and Sanskrit गो (gó).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /bôːs/ → /βus/ → /vus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bôːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vus/

NounEdit

βοῦς • (boûs) m, f (genitive βοός); third declension

1. cow, ox, cattle
2. shield: ὃτι ἐκ βοείων ἐστι δερμάτων συνεκδοχικῶς τὸ ὅπλον. Because the weapon is made of successive bovine skins.

InflectionEdit

Third declension of βοῦς, βοός (contracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ/ἡ βοῦς	τὼ βόε	οἱ/αἱ βόες
Genitive	τοῦ/τῆς βοός	τοῖν βοοῖν	τῶν βοῶν
Dative	τῷ/τῇ βοΐ	τοῖν βοοῖν	τοῖς/ταῖς βουσί(ν)
Accusative	τὸν/τὴν βοῦν	τὼ βόε	τοὺς/τὰς βοῦς
Vocative	βοῦ	βόε	βόες
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

SynonymsEdit

(shield): αἰγίς (aigís), ἀσπίδιον (aspídion), ἀσπίς (aspís), βοάγριον (boágrion), πέλτη (péltē), ῥῑνός (rhīnós), σάκος (sákos), σκοῦτα (skoûta)

HyponymsEdit

• δᾰ́μᾰλῐς (dámalis, “heifer”), δᾰμᾰ́λη (damálē), μόσχος (móskhos, “young bull or cow”), πόρτις (pórtis), στεῖρα (steîra, “cow that has not produced young”), ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”)

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from βοῦς (boûs)

• βούγλωσσον (boúglōsson)
• βούγλωσσος (boúglōssos)
• βουθυσία (bouthusía)
• βουθυτέω (bouthutéō)
• βούθυτος (boúthutos)
• Βουκέφαλος (Bouképhalos)
• βουκολέω (boukoléō)
• βουκολία (boukolía)

• βουκόλιον (boukólion)
• βούκολος (boúkolos)
• βουκόλος (boukólos)
• βουνομέω (bounoméō)
• βούνομος (boúnomos)
• βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón)
• βούτης (boútēs)
• βούτῡρον (boútūron)

• βούτῡρος (boútūros)
• βούφονος (boúphonos)
• βουφορβέω (bouphorbéō)
• βουφόρβια (bouphórbia)
• βουφορβός (bouphorbós)
• βοῶπις (boôpis)
• ἐπιβουκόλος (epiboukólos)

DescendantsEdit

• English: butter, bucolic, hecatomb, boustrophedon, bulimia nervosa
• Translingual: Bucephala

ReferencesEdit

• βοῦς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βοῦς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βοῦς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βοῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• βοῦς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βοῦς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2018)
• βοῦς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1016”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bull idem, page 103.
  • cow idem, page 180.
  • ox idem, page 587.