βότρυς

See also: Βότρυς

Ancient Greek

Considered Pre-Greek,^[1] but also Semitic, relating to Hebrew בֹּסֶר (boser, “unripe grape”), Arabic بُسْر (busr, “unripe dates”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic בֻּסְרָא (busrā), בּוּסְרָא (busrā, “unripe grape”), Hebrew בֹּסֶר (boser, “unripe grape”), Classical Syriac ܒܣܪܐ (*busrā, “unripe grape”).^[2]^[3]^[4]

βότρῠς • (bótrŭs) m (genitive βότρῠος); third declension

a bunch of grapes
- c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.562
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Regimen 2.55
- 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 7.225b
- Palatine Anthology 5.286
- c. 450 CE – 470 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.528
1. (figurative) clustered earring
  - 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 320.10
(botany) ambrosia (Ambrosia maritima)
Synonyms: ᾰ̓μβροσῐ́ᾱ (ămbrosĭ́ā), ἀρτεμῐσῐ́ᾱ (artemĭsĭ́ā)
- AD 40–90, Dioscorides, Materia medica 3.114
1. Jerusalem oak (Dysphania botrys [syn. Chenopodium botrys])
  - AD 40–90, Dioscorides, Materia medica 115
the Pleiades
- Sch.Il. 18.486

Third declension of ὁ βότρῠς; τοῦ βότρῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βότρῠς ho bótrŭs	τὼ βότρῠε tṑ bótrŭe	οἱ βότρῠες / βότρῡς hoi bótrŭes / bótrūs
Genitive	τοῦ βότρῠος toû bótrŭos	τοῖν βοτρῠ́οιν toîn botrŭ́oin	τῶν βοτρῠ́ων tôn botrŭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ βότρῠῐ̈ / βότρυι tōî bótrŭĭ̈ / bótrui	τοῖν βοτρῠ́οιν toîn botrŭ́oin	τοῖς βότρῠσῐ / βότρῠσῐν toîs bótrŭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν βότρῠν tòn bótrŭn	τὼ βότρῠε tṑ bótrŭe	τοὺς βότρῡς / βότρῠᾰς toùs bótrūs / bótrŭăs
Vocative	βότρῠ bótrŭ	βότρῠε bótrŭe	βότρῠες / βότρῡς bótrŭes / bótrūs
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

A heteroclitic neuter plural occurs in Euphorion 149:

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ βότρῠᾰ tằ bótrŭă
Genitive	τῶν βοτρῠ́ων tôn botrŭ́ōn
Dative	τοῖς βότρῠσῐ / βότρῠσῐν toîs bótrŭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τᾰ̀ βότρῠᾰ tằ bótrŭă
Vocative	βότρῠᾰ bótrŭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Tsakonian: βότσχε (vótsche)
Latin: bō̆trys, bō̆trus, bō̆truōsus, bō̆trōnātus
- → English: botriform, botrycymose, botrylle, botryogen, botryoid, stachybotryotoxicosis, botrytis

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page βότρυς, -υος [m.]
^ Brown, John Pairman (1995), Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume I, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pages 155–156
^ Szemerényi, Oswald (1971), “Pierre Chantraine: Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: Histoire des mots”, in Gnomon‎^[1], volume 43, page 661
^ Lagarde, Paul de (1887), Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, page 356