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βοώνης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: boōnēs

Principal Part: βοώνης

Structure: βοων (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ὠνέομαι

Sense

  1. an officer who bought oxen for the sacrifices

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βοώνης βοώνα βοῶναι
Genitive βοώνου βοώναιν βοωνῶν
Dative βοώνῃ βοώναιν βοώναις
Accusative βοώνην βοώνα βοώνας
Vocative βοῶνα βοώνα βοῶναι

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

  • ἀπὸ δὲ Κιλίκων νήσου ἐς Βοῶνα πέντε καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 16 4:1)
  • ὑμεῖς γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐχειροτονήσατε τοῦτον τῆς Παράλου ταμίαν, ὄντα τοιοῦτον οἱό῀ς ἐστι, καὶ πάλιν ἵππαρχον, ὀχεῖσθαι διὰ τῆς ἀγορᾶς ταῖς πομπαῖς οὐ δυνάμενον, καὶ μυστηρίων ἐπιμελητὴν καὶ ἱεροποιόν ποτε καὶ βοώνην, καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα δή. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 223:2)

Synonyms

  1. an officer who bought oxen for the sacrifices

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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