βοῦς

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• βῶς ‎(bôs) Choral 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: /bo᷇ːs/ → /βus/ → /vus/

• 5th BC Attic: IPA: /bo᷇ːs/
• 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /bus/
• 4th AD Koine: IPA: /βus/
• 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /vus/
• 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /vus/

NounEdit

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

1. cow, ox, cattle
2. shield: ὃτι ἐκ βοείων ἐστι δερμάτων συνεκδοχικῶς τὸ ὃπλον. 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

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• 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.