βοῦς
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Ancient GreekEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Hellenic *gʷous, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Cognates include Old English cū (English cow), Latin bōs, and Sanskrit गो (gó).
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bôːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /bus/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βus/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vus/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vus/
NounEdit
βοῦς • (boûs) m, f (genitive βοός); third declension
- cow, ox, cattle
- 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 |
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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 |
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)
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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.