βοῦττις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • βούτη (boútē), βοῦτις (boûtis)

Etymology

    According to Beekes, the word is evidently Pre-Greek, because of the alternation -τ-/-ττ-.[1]

    Pronunciation

     

    Noun

    βοῦττῐς • (boûttĭs) f (genitive βούττῐος); third declension

    1. vessel in the shape of the frustum of a cone

    Declension

    Third declension of ἡ βοῦττῐς; τῆς βούττῐος (Attic)
    Case / # Singular Dual Plural
    Nominative ἡ βοῦττῐς
    hē boûttĭs     		τὼ βούττῐε
    tṑ boúttĭe     		αἱ βούττῐες
    hai boúttĭes
    Genitive τῆς βούττῐος
    tês boúttĭos     		τοῖν βουττῐ́οιν
    toîn bouttĭ́oin     		τῶν βουττῐ́ων
    tôn bouttĭ́ōn
    Dative τῇ βούττῑ
    tēî boúttī     		τοῖν βουττῐ́οιν
    toîn bouttĭ́oin     		ταῖς βούττῐσῐ / βούττῐσῐν
    taîs boúttĭsĭ(n)
    Accusative τὴν βοῦττῐν
    tḕn boûttĭn     		τὼ βούττῐε
    tṑ boúttĭe     		τᾱ̀ς βούττῑς / βούττῐᾰς
    tā̀s boúttīs / boúttĭăs
    Vocative βοῦττῐ
    boûttĭ     		βούττῐε
    boúttĭe     		βούττῐες
    boúttĭes
    Notes:
    • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → Latin: buttis
    • → Ottoman Turkish: فوچی (fuçı, fıçı), فیچی (fıçı)
      • Turkish: fıçı
      • → Albanian: fuçi
      • → Armenian: ֆըչի (fəčʻi), ֆիչի (fičʻi)
      • → Ubykh: фыҽы (fəĉə)

    References

    1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βοῦ(τ)τις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 233

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