Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βῶς ‎(bôs) Doric

Noun

βοῦς • ‎(boûs) m, f ‎(genitive βοός); third declension

1. cow, ox, cattle
2. shield: ὃτι ἐκ βοείων ἐστι δερμάτων συνεκδοχικῶς τὸ ὃπλον. Because the weapon is made of successive bovine skins.

Inflection

Synonyms

(shield): αἰγίς ‎(aigís), ἀσπίδιον ‎(aspídion), ἀσπίς ‎(aspís), βοάγριον ‎(boágrion), πέλτη ‎(péltē), ῥῑνός ‎(rhīnós), σάκος ‎(sákos), σκοῦτα ‎(skoûta)

Hyponyms

• δᾰ́μᾰλῐς ‎(dámalis, “heifer”), δᾰμᾰ́λη ‎(damálē), μόσχος ‎(móskhos, “young bull or cow”), πόρτις ‎(pórtis), στεῖρα ‎(steîra, “cow that has not produced young”), ταῦρος ‎(taûros, “bull”)

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: butter, bucolic, hecatomb, boustrophedon, bulimia nervosa
• Translingual: Bucephala

References

• βοῦς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βοῦς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βοῦς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «βοῦς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «βοῦς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «βοῦς» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• βοῦς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1016”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bull idem, page 103.
  • cow idem, page 180.
  • ox idem, page 587.