βόστρυχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown but perhaps of Pre-Greek origin. Often connected with βότρυς (bótrus, “bunch of grapes”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bós.try.kʰos/ → /ˈβos.try.xos/ → /ˈvos.tri.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bós.try.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbos.try.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβos.try.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvos.try.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvos.tri.xos/

Noun

βόστρῠχος • (bóstrŭkhos) m (genitive βοστρύχου); second declension

1. curl, lock of hair
2. anything twisted or wreathed
3. tendril
4. ornament
5. male of the glowworm
6. (in the plural) seaweed

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βόστρῠχος; τοῦ βοστρῠ́χου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βόστρῠχος ho bóstrŭkhos	τὼ βοστρῠ́χω tṑ bostrŭ́khō	οἱ βόστρῠχοι hoi bóstrŭkhoi
Genitive	τοῦ βοστρῠ́χου toû bostrŭ́khou	τοῖν βοστρῠ́χοιν toîn bostrŭ́khoin	τῶν βοστρῠ́χων tôn bostrŭ́khōn
Dative	τῷ βοστρῠ́χῳ tôi bostrŭ́khōi	τοῖν βοστρῠ́χοιν toîn bostrŭ́khoin	τοῖς βοστρῠ́χοις toîs bostrŭ́khois
Accusative	τὸν βόστρῠχον tòn bóstrŭkhon	τὼ βοστρῠ́χω tṑ bostrŭ́khō	τοὺς βοστρῠ́χους toùs bostrŭ́khous
Vocative	βόστρῠχε bóstrŭkhe	βοστρῠ́χω bostrŭ́khō	βόστρῠχοι bóstrŭkhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βοστρυχηδόν (bostrukhēdón)
• βοστρυχίζω (bostrukhízō)
• βοστρύχιον (bostrúkhion)
• βοστρυχίτης (bostrukhítēs)
• βοστρυχοειδής (bostrukhoeidḗs)
• βοστρυχώδης (bostrukhṓdēs)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Bostrichus

Further reading

• “βόστρυχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βόστρυχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βόστρυχος 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