βυθός
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- βυσσός (bussós)
Etymology edit
Possibly a metathesis from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb-, with cognates including Old Church Slavonic дъно (dŭno), Old English dēop (English deep) and Albanian det (from Proto-Albanian *deubeta). Unrelated to βᾰθῠ́ς (bathús) and βένθος (bénthos).
Alternately, cognate to Sanskrit गाध (gādha, “bottom, ford, shallows, standing-ground in water”).
Also compare the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- with meaning related to swelling, as in a deepening.
However, Beekes rejects Indo-European origin, and assigns it to Pre-Greek instead.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /by.tʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /byˈtʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βyˈθos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vyˈθos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /viˈθos/
Noun edit
βῠθός • (buthós) m (genitive βῠθοῦ); second declension
- depth
- depth of the sea, deep water
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βῠθός ho buthós |
τὼ βῠθώ tṑ buthṓ |
οἱ βῠθοί hoi buthoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βῠθοῦ toû buthoû |
τοῖν βῠθοῖν toîn buthoîn |
τῶν βῠθῶν tôn buthôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βῠθῷ tôi buthôi |
τοῖν βῠθοῖν toîn buthoîn |
τοῖς βῠθοῖς toîs buthoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βῠθόν tòn buthón |
τὼ βῠθώ tṑ buthṓ |
τοὺς βῠθούς toùs buthoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | βῠθέ buthé |
βῠθώ buthṓ |
βῠθοί buthoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- ἄβυσσος (ábussos)
Descendants edit
- Greek: βυθός (vythós)
References edit
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βυθός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 247
Further reading edit
- “βυθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βυθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βυθός 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
- βυθός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “βυθός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1037 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ancient Greek βυθός (buthós).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
βυθός • (vythós) m (plural βυθοί)
Declension edit
declension of βυθός
Further reading edit
- βυθός - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.