βρῦτος

βρῦτος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βρῦτον (brûton)

Etymology

From Thracian *brutos (“beer, a type of barley beer”)[1].

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /brŷː.tos/ → /ˈβry.tos/ → /ˈvri.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brŷː.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbry.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβry.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvry.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvri.tos/

Noun

βρῦτος • (brûtos) m (genitive βρῡ́του); second declension

1. beer made of barley

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βρῦτος; τοῦ βρῡ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βρῦτος ho brûtos	τὼ βρῡ́τω tṑ brū́tō	οἱ βρῦτοι hoi brûtoi
Genitive	τοῦ βρῡ́του toû brū́tou	τοῖν βρῡ́τοιν toîn brū́toin	τῶν βρῡ́των tôn brū́tōn
Dative	τῷ βρῡ́τῳ tôi brū́tōi	τοῖν βρῡ́τοιν toîn brū́toin	τοῖς βρῡ́τοις toîs brū́tois
Accusative	τὸν βρῦτον tòn brûton	τὼ βρῡ́τω tṑ brū́tō	τοὺς βρῡ́τους toùs brū́tous
Vocative	βρῦτε brûte	βρῡ́τω brū́tō	βρῦτοι brûtoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βρύτεα (brútea)
• βρυτικός (brutikós)
• βρύτινος (brútinos)

 

References

1. Duridanov, Ivan Vasiliev (1985) Die Sprache der Thraker [The Language of the Thracians]‎ (in German), Hieronymus Verlag, →ISBN, pages 16

Further reading

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