Ancient Greek Dictionary

  - Greek-English Dictionary
Ancient Greek Dictionary  - Greek-English Dictionary  - Korean-Greek Dictionary  - Dictionary Indices
Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

βοεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: boeus

Principal Part: βοεύς

Structure: βοευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: βοῦς

Sense

  1. a rope of ox-hide

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βοεύς βοή βοής
Genitive βοέως βοέοιν βοέων
Dative βοεί βοέοιν βοεῦσι(ν)
Accusative βοέα βοή βοέας
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.

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION