βόλινθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bó.lin.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbo.lin.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβo.lin.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvo.lin.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvo.lin.θos/
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Noun
βόλινθος • (bólinthos) m (genitive βολίνθου); second declension
- European bison
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ βόλινθος; τοῦ βολίνθου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βόλινθος ho bólinthos | τὼ βολίνθω tṑ bolínthō | οἱ βόλινθοι hoi bólinthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βολίνθου toû bolínthou | τοῖν βολίνθοιν toîn bolínthoin | τῶν βολίνθων tôn bolínthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βολίνθῳ tôi bolínthōi | τοῖν βολίνθοιν toîn bolínthoin | τοῖς βολίνθοις toîs bolínthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βόλινθον tòn bólinthon | τὼ βολίνθω tṑ bolínthō | τοὺς βολίνθους toùs bolínthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | βόλινθε bólinthe | βολίνθω bolínthō | βόλινθοι bólinthoi | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- βόνασος (bónasos)
- μόναπος (mónapos)
Further reading
- βόλινθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βόλινθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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