εὔβοτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ βόσκω (bóskō, “feed, graze”, verb) or βοτόν n (botón, “a grazing beast”, noun) +‎ -ος (-os, suffix forming second-declension compound adjectives); for the βοτ- (bot-) root, compare βοτᾰ́νη (botắnē, “pasture”) and βοτήρ (botḗr, “herdsman”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ěu̯.bo.tos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈew.bo.tos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈeβ.βo.tos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈev.vo.tos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈev.vo.tos/

Adjective

εὔβοτος • (eúbotos) m or f (neuter εὔβοτον); second declension

The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.406
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 111a
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.669
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 16
- Scymn. 607
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 1083.6
1. abounding in pasture
2. abounding with fine oxen
well-fed, thriving
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 5.24

Declension

Second declension of εὔβοτος; εὔβοτον (Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	εὔβοτος eúbotos	εὔβοτον eúboton	εὐβότω eubótō	εὐβότω eubótō	εὔβοτοι eúbotoi	εὔβοτᾰ eúbotă
Genitive	εὐβότου eubótou	εὐβότου eubótou	εὐβότοιν eubótoin	εὐβότοιν eubótoin	εὐβότων eubótōn	εὐβότων eubótōn
Dative	εὐβότῳ eubótōi	εὐβότῳ eubótōi	εὐβότοιν eubótoin	εὐβότοιν eubótoin	εὐβότοις eubótois	εὐβότοις eubótois
Accusative	εὔβοτον eúboton	εὔβοτον eúboton	εὐβότω eubótō	εὐβότω eubótō	εὐβότους eubótous	εὔβοτᾰ eúbotă
Vocative	εὔβοτε eúbote	εὔβοτον eúboton	εὐβότω eubótō	εὐβότω eubótō	εὔβοτοι eúbotoi	εὔβοτᾰ eúbotă
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	—		—		εὐβοτώτᾰτος eubotṓtătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

εὐβοτέομαι (eubotéomai, verb)

“εὔβοτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“εὔβοτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“εὔβοτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
εὔβοτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
εὔβοτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “εὔβοτος”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn