βόστρυχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown but perhaps of Pre-Greek origin. Often connected with βότρυς (bótrus, “bunch of grapes”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bós.try.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbos.try.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβos.try.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvos.try.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvos.tri.xos/
Noun
βόστρῠχος • (bóstrukhos) m (genitive βοστρύχου); second declension
- curl, lock of hair
- anything twisted or wreathed
- tendril
- ornament
- male of the glowworm
- (in the plural) seaweed
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ βόστρῠχος; τοῦ βοστρῠ́χου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ βόστρῠχος ho bóstrukhos | τὼ βοστρῠ́χω tṑ bostrúkhō | οἱ βόστρῠχοι hoi bóstrukhoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βοστρῠ́χου toû bostrúkhou | τοῖν βοστρῠ́χοιν toîn bostrúkhoin | τῶν βοστρῠ́χων tôn bostrúkhōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βοστρῠ́χῳ tôi bostrúkhōi | τοῖν βοστρῠ́χοιν toîn bostrúkhoin | τοῖς βοστρῠ́χοις toîs bostrúkhois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν βόστρῠχον tòn bóstrukhon | τὼ βοστρῠ́χω tṑ bostrúkhō | τοὺς βοστρῠ́χους toùs bostrúkhous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βόστρῠχε bóstrukhe | βοστρῠ́χω bostrúkhō | βόστρῠχοι bóstrukhoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βοστρυχηδόν (bostrukhēdón)
- βοστρυχίζω (bostrukhízō)
- βοστρύχιον (bostrúkhion)
- βοστρυχίτης (bostrukhítēs)
- βοστρυχοειδής (bostrukhoeidḗs)
- βοστρυχώδης (bostrukhṓdēs)
Descendants
- Translingual: Bostrichus
Further reading
- βόστρυχος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βόστρυχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βόστρυχος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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