Ancient Greek

Noun

βότρῠς • ‎(bótrus) m ‎(genitive βότρῠος); third declension

1. bunch of grapes, grapes
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.562
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Vict. 2.55
   • 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 7.225b
   • Palatine Anthology 5.286
   • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.528
   1. (figuratively) clustered earring
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 320.10
2. (herb) ambrosia (Ambrosia maritima)
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 3.114
   1. Jerusalem oak (Dysphania botrys (Chenopodium Botrys))
      • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 115
3. the Pleiades
   • Sch.Il. 18.486

Declension

βότρῠς also appears with a heteroclitic neuter plural in Euphorion 149, probably from the related βότρῠον ‎(bótruon):

Synonyms

• (ambrosia, Ambrosia maritima): ἀμβροσῐ́ᾱ ‎(ambrosíā), ἀρτεμισῐ́ᾱ ‎(artemisíā)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Latin: bō̆trys, bō̆trus, bō̆truōsus, bō̆trōnātus
  • → English: botriform, botrycymose, botrylle, botryogen, botryoid, stachybotryotoxicosis

References

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 228

• βότρυς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βότρυς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βότρυς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «βότρυς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βότρυς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «βότρυς» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1009”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «βότρυς» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cluster idem, page 140.
  • grape idem, page 369.
  • vine idem, page 953.