βόρασσος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
An Egyptian word. Compare Arabic بسر (busr, “unripe dates”), Classical Syriac ܒܣܪܐ (*busrā, “unripe grape”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic בֻּסְרָא (busrā) and Hebrew בֹּסֶר (boser, “unripe grape”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bó.ras.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbo.ras.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβo.ras.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvo.ras.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvo.ra.sos/
Noun
βόρᾰσσος • (bórassos) m (genitive βορᾰ́σσου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ βόρᾰσσος ho bórassos |
τὼ βορᾰ́σσω tṑ borássō |
οἱ βόρᾰσσοι hoi bórassoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βορᾰ́σσου toû borássou |
τοῖν βορᾰ́σσοιν toîn borássoin |
τῶν βορᾰ́σσων tôn borássōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βορᾰ́σσῳ tôi borássōi |
τοῖν βορᾰ́σσοιν toîn borássoin |
τοῖς βορᾰ́σσοις toîs borássois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν βόρᾰσσον tòn bórasson |
τὼ βορᾰ́σσω tṑ borássō |
τοὺς βορᾰ́σσους toùs borássous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βόρᾰσσε bórasse |
βορᾰ́σσω borássō |
βόρᾰσσοι bórassoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Borassus
Further reading
- “βόρασσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βόρασσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βόρασσος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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