Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀστοῦν ‎(ostoûn) (Attic)
• ὀστεῦν ‎(osteûn) (Poetic)
• ὄστιον ‎(óstion) (Aeolic)

Noun

ὀστέον • ‎(ostéon) n ‎(genitive ὀστέου); second declension

1. bone
2. (figuratively) bones of the earth = rock
3. stone of fruit

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: οστό ‎(ostó)

References

• ὀστέον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀστέον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀστέον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὀστέον» 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
• «ὀστέον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὀστέον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4356”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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