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单词 βουστροφηδόν
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βουστροφηδόν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βοῦς (boûs, ox) + στροφή (strophḗ, turn) + -ηδόν (-ēdón, in the manner of).

Pronunciation

 
  • (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /buːs.tro.pʰɛː.dón/
  • (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /bus.tro.pʰe̝ˈdon/
  • (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βus.tro.ɸiˈðon/
  • (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vus.tro.fiˈðon/
  • (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vus.tro.fiˈðon/

Adverb

βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón)

  1. boustrophedon: a manner of writing which alternated between left to right and right to left directions (similar to the back and forth pattern of someone plowing a field with an ox); an intermediate between the inherited right to left direction used by Semitic languages and the left to right direction ultimately used in later Greek.
  • στοιχηδόν m (stoichidón)

Descendants

  • Catalan: bustrofèdon
  • English: boustrophedon

References

  • βουστροφηδόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • βουστροφηδόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • βουστροφηδόν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
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