βοῦς

Ancient Greek

βοῦς • (boûs) m or f (genitive βοός); third declension

cow, ox, cattle
shield
ὅτι ἐκ βοείων ἐστι δερμάτων συνεκδοχικῶς τὸ ὅπλον.
hóti ek boeíōn esti dermátōn sunekdokhikôs tò hóplon.
Because the weapon is made of successive bovine skins.

Irregular declension of ὁ, ἡ βοῦς; τοῦ, τῆς βοός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ βοῦς ho, hē boûs	τὼ βόε tṑ bóe	οἱ, αἱ βόες hoi, hai bóes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς βοός toû, tês boós	τοῖν βοοῖν toîn booîn	τῶν βοῶν tôn boôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ βοΐ tôi, têi boḯ	τοῖν βοοῖν toîn booîn	τοῖς, ταῖς βουσί / βουσίν toîs, taîs bousí(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν βοῦν tòn, tḕn boûn	τὼ βόε tṑ bóe	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς βοῦς toùs, tā̀s boûs
Vocative	βοῦ boû	βόε bóe	βόες bóes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Irregular declension of βοῦς; βοός (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	βοῦς boûs	βόε bóe	βόες bóes
Genitive	βοός boós	βοοῖν booîn	βοῶν boôn
Dative	βοΐ boḯ	βοοῖν booîn	βουσί / βουσίν / βόεσσι / βόεσσιν bousí(n) / bóessi(n)
Accusative	βοῦν / βῶν boûn / bôn	βόε bóe	βόας / βοῦς bóas / boûs
Vocative	βοῦ boû	βόε bóe	βόες bóes
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

(shield): αἰγίς (aigís), ἀσπίδιον (aspídion), ἀσπίς (aspís), βοάγριον (boágrion), κρίγδανον (krígdanon), πέλτη (péltē), ῥῑνός (rhīnós), σάκος (sákos), σκοῦτα (skoûta)

δᾰμᾰ́λη (damálē, “young cow, heifer”), δᾰμᾰ́λης (damálēs, “young steer”), δᾰ́μᾰλις (dámalis, “young cow, heifer”), μόσχος (móskhos, “young bull or cow”), πόρτις (pórtis), στεῖρα (steîra, “cow that has not produced young”), ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”)

“βοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“βοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“βοῦς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
βοῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
βοῦς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
βοῦς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
“βοῦς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G1016 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bull idem, page 103.
- cow idem, page 180.
- ox idem, page 587.
Mycenaean Greek Word List

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