βοῦς

Ancient Greek

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

cow, ox, cattle
shield: ὃτι ἐκ βοείων ἐστι δερμάτων συνεκδοχικῶς τὸ ὅπλον. Because the weapon is made of successive bovine skins.

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:

(shield): αἰγίς (aigís), ἀσπίδιον (aspídion), ἀσπίς (aspís), βοάγριον (boágrion), πέλτη (péltē), ῥῑνός (rhīnós), σάκος (sákos), σκοῦτα (skoûta)

δᾰ́μᾰλῐς (dámalis, “heifer”), δᾰμᾰ́λη (damálē), μόσχος (móskhos, “young bull or cow”), πόρτις (pórtis), στεῖρα (steîra, “cow that has not produced young”), ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”)

Terms derived from βοῦς (boûs)

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 (2006–2018)
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bull idem, page 103.
- cow idem, page 180.
- ox idem, page 587.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.