βότρυς

Ancient Greek

Probably from Pre-Greek, though Beekes does mention theories of Semitic origin, akin to Hebrew בוסר‎ (boṣer, “unripe grape”).^[1]

βότρῠς • (bótrus) m (genitive βότρῠος); third declension

bunch of grapes, grapes
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.562
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Vict. 2.55
- 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 7.225b
- Palatine Anthology 5.286
- 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.528
1. (figuratively) clustered earring
  - 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 320.10
(herb) ambrosia (Ambrosia maritima)
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 3.114
1. Jerusalem oak (Dysphania botrys (Chenopodium Botrys))
  - 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 115
the Pleiades
- Sch.Il. 18.486

Third declension of ὁ βότρῠς; τοῦ βότρῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βότρῠς ho bótrus	τὼ βότρῠε tṑ bótrue	οἱ βότρῠες hoi bótrues
Genitive	τοῦ βότρῠος toû bótruos	τοῖν βοτρῠ́οιν toîn botrúoin	τῶν βοτρῠ́ων tôn botrúōn
Dative	τῷ βότρῠῐ̈ / βότρυι tôi bótruï / bótrui	τοῖν βοτρῠ́οιν toîn botrúoin	τοῖς βότρῠσῐ(ν) toîs bótrusi(n)
Accusative	τὸν βότρῠν tòn bótrun	τὼ βότρῠε tṑ bótrue	τοὺς βότρῡς / βότρῠᾰς toùs bótrūs / bótruas
Vocative	βότρῠ bótru	βότρῠε bótrue	βότρῠες bótrues
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

βότρῠς also appears with a heteroclitic neuter plural in Euphorion 149, probably from the related βότρῠον (bótruon):

Second declension of τᾰ̀ βότρῠᾰ; τῶν βοτρῠ́ων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ βότρῠᾰ tà bótrua
Genitive	τῶν βοτρῠ́ων tôn botrúōn
Dative	τοῖς βοτρῠ́οις toîs botrúois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ βότρῠᾰ tà bótrua
Vocative	βότρῠᾰ bótrua
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Terms derived from βότρυς (bótrus)

Latin: bō̆trys, bō̆trus, bō̆truōsus, bō̆trōnātus
- → English: botriform, botrycymose, botrylle, botryogen, botryoid, stachybotryotoxicosis, botrytis

↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 228

βότρυς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
βότρυς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
βότρυς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
βότρυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
βότρυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
βότρυς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
G1009 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
βότρυς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cluster idem, page 140.
- grape idem, page 369.
- vine idem, page 953.

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