βόστρυχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown but perhaps of Pre-Greek origin. Often connected with βότρυς (bótrus, “bunch of grapes”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bós.try.kʰos/ → /ˈβos.try.xos/ → /ˈvos.tri.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bós.try.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbos.try.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβos.try.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvos.try.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvos.tri.xos/

Noun

βόστρῠχος • (bóstrukhos) m (genitive βοστρύχου); second declension

1. curl, lock of hair
2. anything twisted or wreathed
3. tendril
4. ornament
5. male of the glowworm
6. (in the plural) seaweed

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βόστρῠχος; τοῦ βοστρῠ́χου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βόστρῠχος ho bóstrukhos	τὼ βοστρῠ́χω tṑ bostrúkhō	οἱ βόστρῠχοι hoi bóstrukhoi
Genitive	τοῦ βοστρῠ́χου toû bostrúkhou	τοῖν βοστρῠ́χοιν toîn bostrúkhoin	τῶν βοστρῠ́χων tôn bostrúkhōn
Dative	τῷ βοστρῠ́χῳ tôi bostrúkhōi	τοῖν βοστρῠ́χοιν toîn bostrúkhoin	τοῖς βοστρῠ́χοις toîs bostrúkhois
Accusative	τὸν βόστρῠχον tòn bóstrukhon	τὼ βοστρῠ́χω tṑ bostrúkhō	τοὺς βοστρῠ́χους toùs bostrúkhous
Vocative	βόστρῠχε bóstrukhe	βοστρῠ́χω bostrúkhō	βόστρῠχοι bóstrukhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βοστρυχηδόν (bostrukhēdón)
• βοστρυχίζω (bostrukhízō)
• βοστρύχιον (bostrúkhion)
• βοστρυχίτης (bostrukhítēs)
• βοστρυχοειδής (bostrukhoeidḗs)
• βοστρυχώδης (bostrukhṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Bostrichus

Further reading

• “βόστρυχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βόστρυχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βόστρυχος 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