βόρασσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

An Egyptian word. Compare Arabic بسر (busr, “unripe dates”), Classical Syriac ܒܣܪܐ (*busrā, “unripe grape”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic בֻּסְרָא (busrā) and Hebrew בֹּסֶר (boser, “unripe grape”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bó.ras.sos/ → /ˈβo.ras.sos/ → /ˈvo.ra.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bó.ras.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.ras.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβo.ras.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.ras.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.ra.sos/

Noun

βόρᾰσσος • (bórassos) m (genitive βορᾰ́σσου); second declension

1. (botany) growing spadix of the date with immature fruit

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βόρᾰσσος; τοῦ βορᾰ́σσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βόρᾰσσος ho bórassos	τὼ βορᾰ́σσω tṑ borássō	οἱ βόρᾰσσοι hoi bórassoi
Genitive	τοῦ βορᾰ́σσου toû borássou	τοῖν βορᾰ́σσοιν toîn borássoin	τῶν βορᾰ́σσων tôn borássōn
Dative	τῷ βορᾰ́σσῳ tôi borássōi	τοῖν βορᾰ́σσοιν toîn borássoin	τοῖς βορᾰ́σσοις toîs borássois
Accusative	τὸν βόρᾰσσον tòn bórasson	τὼ βορᾰ́σσω tṑ borássō	τοὺς βορᾰ́σσους toùs borássous
Vocative	βόρᾰσσε bórasse	βορᾰ́σσω borássō	βόρᾰσσοι bórassoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Borassus

Further reading

• “βόρασσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βόρασσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βόρασσος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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