Βορέας
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Named as the god of the north wind, perhaps related to Proto-Slavic *gora (“mountain, hill, mountainous elevation covered in forests”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bo.ré.aːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /boˈrɛ.as/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βoˈre.as/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /voˈre.as/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /voˈre.as/
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Βορέᾱς ho Boréās |
τὼ Βορέᾱ tṑ Boréā |
τοὶ Βορέαι toì Boréai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Βορέᾱ toû Boréā |
τοῖν Βορέαιν toîn Boréain |
τῶν Βορεᾶν tôn Boreân | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Βορέᾳ tôi Boréāi |
τοῖν Βορέαιν toîn Boréain |
τοῖς Βορέαις toîs Boréais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Βορέᾱν tòn Boréān |
τὼ Βορέᾱ tṑ Boréā |
τοὺς Βορέᾱς toùs Boréās | ||||||||||
Vocative | Βορέᾱ Boréā |
Βορέᾱ Boréā |
Βορέαι Boréai | ||||||||||
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References
- Βορέας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Βορέας in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Βορέας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- Βορέας in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
Greek
Alternative forms
- Βορρέας m (Vorréas)
Declension
Further reading
Βορέας on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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