βρῶσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “I eat”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /brɔ̂ː.sis/ → /ˈβro.sis/ → /ˈvro.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brɔ̂ː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbro.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβro.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.sis/

Noun

βρῶσῐς • (brôsis) f (genitive βρώσεως); third declension

1. the act of eating (food); eating a meal
2. food that is eaten, or is to be eaten
3. rust, corrosion

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ βρῶσῐς; τῆς βρώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βρῶσῐς hē brôsis	τὼ βρώσει tṑ brṓsei	αἱ βρώσεις hai brṓseis
Genitive	τῆς βρώσεως tês brṓseōs	τοῖν βρωσέοιν toîn brōséoin	τῶν βρώσεων tôn brṓseōn
Dative	τῇ βρώσει têi brṓsei	τοῖν βρωσέοιν toîn brōséoin	ταῖς βρώσεσῐ / βρώσεσῐν taîs brṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν βρῶσῐν tḕn brôsin	τὼ βρώσει tṑ brṓsei	τᾱ̀ς βρώσεις tā̀s brṓseis
Vocative	βρῶσῐ brôsi	βρώσει brṓsei	βρώσεις brṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ἀνάβρωσις (anábrōsis)
• διάβρωσις (diábrōsis)
• κατάβρωσις (katábrōsis)
• περίβρωσις (períbrōsis)

Further reading

• “βρῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βρῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βρῶσις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βρῶσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βρῶσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βρῶσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1035 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • consumption idem, page 166.
  • eating idem, page 260.
  • feeding idem, page 313.
  • food idem, page 333.