βῶλαξ
See also: Βῶλαξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βῶλος (bôlos, “lump, clod of earth”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bɔ̂ː.laks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbo.laks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβo.laks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvo.laks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvo.laks/
Noun
βῶλᾰξ • (bôlax) f (genitive βώλᾰκος); third declension
- clod, clump of earth
- ground, soil
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ βῶλᾰξ; τῆς βώλᾰκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βῶλᾰξ hē bôlax | τὼ βώλᾰκε tṑ bṓlake | αἱ βώλᾰκες hai bṓlakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βώλᾰκος tês bṓlakos | τοῖν βωλᾰ́κοιν toîn bōlákoin | τῶν βωλᾰ́κων tôn bōlákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βώλᾰκῐ têi bṓlaki | βωλᾰ́κοιν bōlákoin | ταῖς βώλᾰξῐ / βώλᾰξῐν taîs bṓlaxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βώλᾰκᾰ tḕn bṓlaka | βώλᾰκε bṓlake | τᾱ̀ς βώλᾰκᾰς tā̀s bṓlakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | βῶλᾰξ bôlax | βώλᾰκε bṓlake | βώλᾰκες bṓlakes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐριβῶλαξ (eribôlax)
Further reading
- βῶλαξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βῶλαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βῶλαξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)