βρόμος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βόρμος (bórmos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bró.mos/ → /ˈβro.mos/ → /ˈvro.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bró.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbro.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβro.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.mos/

Noun

βρόμος • (brómos) m (genitive βρόμου); second declension

1. oat (Avena sativa)
2. wild oat, slender oat (Avena barbata)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βρόμος; τοῦ βρόμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βρόμος ho brómos	τὼ βρόμω tṑ brómō	οἱ βρόμοι hoi brómoi
Genitive	τοῦ βρόμου toû brómou	τοῖν βρόμοιν toîn brómoin	τῶν βρόμων tôn brómōn
Dative	τῷ βρόμῳ tôi brómōi	τοῖν βρόμοιν toîn brómoin	τοῖς βρόμοις toîs brómois
Accusative	τὸν βρόμον tòn brómon	τὼ βρόμω tṑ brómō	τοὺς βρόμους toùs brómous
Vocative	βρόμε bróme	βρόμω brómō	βρόμοι brómoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Bromus

Further reading

• “βρόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βρόμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN