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βοεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βοεύς

Structure: βοευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: bou=s

Sense

  1. a rope of ox-hide

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βοεύς βοή βοής
Genitive βοέως βοέοιν βοέων
Dative βοεί βοέοιν βοεῦσιν*
Accusative βοέα βοή βοέᾱς
Vocative βοεύ βοή βοής

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὔτε τι γὰρ τῶν οἰκηίων τρίβουσι οὔτε δαπανῶνται, ἀλλὰ καὶ σιτία σφι ἐστὶ ἱρὰ πεσσόμενα, καὶ κρεῶν βοέων καὶ χηνέων πλῆθόσ τι ἑκάστῳ γίνεται πολλὸν ἡμέρησ ἑκάστησ, δίδοται δέ σφι καὶ οἶνοσ ἀμπέλινοσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 37 5:2)
  • τούτοισι ὦν τάδε πάρεξ τῶν ἀρουρέων ἄλλα ἐδίδοτο ἐπ’ ἡμέρῃ ἑκάστῃ, ὀπτοῦ σίτου σταθμὸσ πέντε μνέαι ἑκάστῳ, κρεῶν βοέων δύο μνέαι, οἴνου τέσσερεσ ἀρυστῆρεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 168 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a rope of ox-hide

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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