βότρυς

See also: Βότρυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Considered Pre-Greek [1], but also Semitic, relating to Hebrew בֹּסֶר‎ (boṣer, “unripe grape”), Arabic بُسْر‎ (busr, “unripe dates”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic בֻּסְרָא‎ (busrā), בּוּסְרָא‎ (busrā, “unripe grape”), Hebrew בֹּסֶר‎ (boser, “unripe grape”), Classical Syriac ܒܣܪܐ‎ (*busrā, “unripe grape”).[2][3][4]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

βότρῠς • (bótrus) m (genitive βότρῠος); third declension

  1. bunch of grapes, grapes
    1. (figurative) clustered earring
  2. (herb) ambrosia (Ambrosia maritima)
    1. Jerusalem oak (Dysphania botrys [syn. Chenopodium botrys])
  3. the Pleiades
    • Sch.Il. 18.486

Declension

βότρῠς also appears with a heteroclitic neuter plural in Euphorion 149, probably from the related βότρῠον (bótruon):

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • ἀγλαόβοτρῠς (aglaóbotrus)
  • βοτρεύς (botreús)
  • βοτρῡ́δῐον (botrū́dion)
  • βοτρῡδόν (botrūdón)
  • βοτρῠηρός (botruērós)
  • βοτρῠηφόρος (botruēphóros)
  • βοτρῠ́ϊος (botrúïos)
  • βοτρῠΐτης (botruḯtēs)
  • βοτρῠῖτῐς (botruîtis)
  • βοτρῠμός (botrumós)
  • βοτρῠόδωρος (botruódōros)
  • βοτρῠοειδής (botruoeidḗs)
  • βοτρῠόεις (botruóeis)
  • βοτρῠόκοσμος (botruókosmos)
  • βότρῠον (bótruon)
  • βοτρῠόομαι (botruóomai)
  • βοτρῠόπαις (botruópais)
  • βοτρῠοστᾰγής (botruostagḗs)
  • βοτρῠοστέφᾰνος (botruostéphanos)
  • βοτρῠοφορέω (botruophoréō)
  • βοτρῠοχαίτης (botruokhaítēs)
  • βότρῠχος (bótrukhos)
  • βοτρῠχώδης (botrukhṓdēs)
  • βοτρῠώδης (botruṓdēs)
  • εὔβοτρῠς (eúbotrus)
  • καλλίβοτρῠς (kallíbotrus)
  • μικρόβοτρῠς (mikróbotrus)
  • ποικιλόβοτρῠς (poikilóbotrus)
  • πολύβοτρῠς (polúbotrus)
  • φερέβοτρῠς (pherébotrus)
  • φιλόβοτρῠς (philóbotrus)

Descendants

  • Tsakonian: βότσχε (vótsche)
  • Latin: bō̆trys, bō̆trus, bō̆truōsus, bō̆trōnātus

References

  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 228
  2. Brown, John Pairman (1995) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume I, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pages 155–156
  3. Szemerényi, Oswald (1971), “Pierre Chantraine: Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: Histoire des mots”, in Gnomon, volume 43, →DOI, page 661
  4. Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, page 356

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