βουλυτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) +‎ λῡ́ω (lū́ō, “loosen”) +‎ -τός (-tós, “a suffix that creates verbal adjectives of possibility, either active or passive”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /buː.lyː.tós/ → /βu.lyˈtos/ → /vu.liˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /buː.lyː.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bu.lyˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βu.lyˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vu.lyˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vu.liˈtos/

Noun

βουλῡτός • (boulūtós) m (genitive βουλῡτοῦ); second declension

1. Ellipsis of καιρός βουλυτός (kairós boulutós): time for unyoking oxen, i.e. early afternoon

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βουλῡτός; τοῦ βουλῡτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ βουλῡτός ho boulūtós
Genitive	τοῦ βουλῡτοῦ toû boulūtoû
Dative	τῷ βουλῡτῷ tôi boulūtôi
Accusative	τὸν βουλῡτόν tòn boulūtón
Vocative	βουλῡτέ boulūté
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of βουλῡτός; βουλῡτοῦ (Epic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	βουλῡτός boulūtós
Genitive	βουλῡτοῦ / βουλῡτοῖο / βουλῡτόο boulūtoû / boulūtoîo / boulūtóo
Dative	βουλῡτῷ boulūtôi
Accusative	βουλῡτόν boulūtón
Vocative	βουλῡτέ boulūté
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Synonyms

• βουλύσιος ὥρη (boulúsios hṓrē)

Related terms

• βουλύσιος (voulýsios)
• βούλυσις (boúlusis) (in Cicero)
• βουλῡτόνδε (boulūtónde) (in Homer)

• see: βοῦς (boûs) and λύω (lúō)

Further reading

• “βουλυτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βουλυτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βουλυτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βουλυτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βουλυτός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “βουλυτός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011