βόρασσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

An Egyptian word. Compare Arabic بسر (busr, “unripe dates”), Classical Syriac ܒܣܪܐ (*busrā, “unripe grape”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic בֻּסְרָא (busrā) and Hebrew בֹּסֶר (boser, “unripe grape”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bó.ras.sos/ → /ˈβo.ras.sos/ → /ˈvo.ra.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bó.ras.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.ras.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβo.ras.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.ras.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.ra.sos/

Noun

βόρᾰσσος • (bórăssos) m (genitive βορᾰ́σσου); second declension

1. (botany) growing spadix of the date with immature fruit

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βόρᾰσσος; τοῦ βορᾰ́σσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βόρᾰσσος ho bórăssos	τὼ βορᾰ́σσω tṑ borắssō	οἱ βόρᾰσσοι hoi bórăssoi
Genitive	τοῦ βορᾰ́σσου toû borắssou	τοῖν βορᾰ́σσοιν toîn borắssoin	τῶν βορᾰ́σσων tôn borắssōn
Dative	τῷ βορᾰ́σσῳ tôi borắssōi	τοῖν βορᾰ́σσοιν toîn borắssoin	τοῖς βορᾰ́σσοις toîs borắssois
Accusative	τὸν βόρᾰσσον tòn bórăsson	τὼ βορᾰ́σσω tṑ borắssō	τοὺς βορᾰ́σσους toùs borắssous
Vocative	βόρᾰσσε bórăsse	βορᾰ́σσω borắssō	βόρᾰσσοι bórăssoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Borassus

Further reading

• “βόρασσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βόρασσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βόρασσος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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, →ISBN