βούπαις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) +‎ παῖς (paîs, “child”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bǔː.pai̯s/ → /ˈβu.pɛs/ → /ˈvu.pes/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bǔː.pai̯s/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.pɛs/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβu.pɛs/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvu.pes/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvu.pes/

Noun

βούπαις • (boúpais) m (genitive βούπαιδος); third declension

1. big boy
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1206
   • 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Collected Works 402
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, R. 1.760
   • Agath. 2.14
2. (of bees) child of the ox (in allusion to the rite of būgonia)
   • Palatine Anthology 7.36
3. some type of fish
   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον
4. herdsman
   • Suid.

Declension

Third declension of ὁ βούπαις; τοῦ βούπαιδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βούπαις ho boúpais	τὼ βούπαιδε tṑ boúpaide	οἱ βούπαιδες hoi boúpaides
Genitive	τοῦ βούπαιδος toû boúpaidos	τοῖν βουπαίδοιν toîn boupaídoin	τῶν βουπαίδων tôn boupaídōn
Dative	τῷ βούπαιδῐ tôi boúpaidĭ	τοῖν βουπαίδοιν toîn boupaídoin	τοῖς βούπαισῐ / βούπαισῐν toîs boúpaisĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν βούπαιδᾰ tòn boúpaidă	τὼ βούπαιδε tṑ boúpaide	τοὺς βούπαιδᾰς toùs boúpaidăs
Vocative	βούπαις boúpais	βούπαιδε boúpaide	βούπαιδες boúpaides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Synonyms

• (herdsman): βουκόλος (boukólos)

Descendants

• Latin: būpaes

References

• “βούπαις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βούπαις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βούπαις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βούπαις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hulking idem, page 409.