βούπαις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + παῖς (paîs, “child”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bǔː.pai̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbu.pɛs/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβu.pɛs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvu.pes/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvu.pes/
Noun
βούπαις • (boúpais) m (genitive βούπαιδος); third declension
- big boy
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1206
- 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Collected Works 402
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, R. 1.760
- Agath. 2.14
- (of bees) child of the ox (in allusion to the rite of būgonia)
- Palatine Anthology 7.36
- some type of fish
- AD 5th C., Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον
- herdsman
- Suid.
Declension
Third declension of ὁ βούπαις; τοῦ βούπαιδος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βούπαις ho boúpais | τὼ βούπαιδε tṑ boúpaide | οἱ βούπαιδες hoi boúpaides | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βούπαιδος toû boúpaidos | τοῖν βουπαίδοιν toîn boupaídoin | τῶν βουπαίδων tôn boupaídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βούπαιδῐ tôi boúpaidi | τοῖν βουπαίδοιν toîn boupaídoin | τοῖς βούπαισῐ / βούπαισῐν toîs boúpaisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βούπαιδᾰ tòn boúpaida | τὼ βούπαιδε tṑ boúpaide | τοὺς βούπαιδᾰς toùs boúpaidas | ||||||||||
Vocative | βούπαις boúpais | βούπαιδε boúpaide | βούπαιδες boúpaides | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (herdsman): βουκόλος (boukólos)
Descendants
- Latin: būpaes
References
- “βούπαις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βούπαις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βούπαις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βούπαις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hulking idem, page 409.