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βοώνης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βοώνης

Structure: βοων (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: w)ne/omai

Sense

  1. an officer who bought oxen for the sacrifices

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βοώνης βοώνᾱ βοῶναι
Genitive βοώνου βοώναιν βοωνῶν
Dative βοώνῃ βοώναιν βοώναις
Accusative βοώνην βοώνᾱ βοώνᾱς
Vocative βοῶνα βοώνᾱ 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 οἱο͂́σ 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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