βουνιάς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βουνός (bounós, “hill”) + -ιάς (-iás).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /buː.ni.ás/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /bu.niˈas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βu.niˈas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vu.niˈas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vu.niˈas/
Noun
βουνιάς • (bouniás) f (genitive βουνιάδος); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βουνῐᾰ́ς hē bounĭắs |
τὼ βουνῐᾰ́δε tṑ bounĭắde |
αἱ βουνῐᾰ́δες hai bounĭắdes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βουνῐᾰ́δος tês bounĭắdos |
τοῖν βουνῐᾰ́δοιν toîn bounĭắdoin |
τῶν βουνῐᾰ́δων tôn bounĭắdōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βουνῐᾰ́δῐ tēî bounĭắdĭ |
τοῖν βουνῐᾰ́δοιν toîn bounĭắdoin |
ταῖς βουνῐᾰ́σῐ / βουνῐᾰ́σῐν taîs bounĭắsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βουνῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn bounĭắdă |
τὼ βουνῐᾰ́δε tṑ bounĭắde |
τᾱ̀ς βουνῐᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s bounĭắdăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βουνῐᾰ́ς bounĭắs |
βουνῐᾰ́δε bounĭắde |
βουνῐᾰ́δες bounĭắdes | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- βούνιον (boúnion)
Descendants
- →? Arabic: بُوشَاد (būšād), بُرْشَاد (buršād), بُورْشَاد (būršād), بُوشْيَاد (būšyād) (a word quoted after lost authors in medieval herbaries and drugbooks and reckoned “Persian”, after Vullers mayhaps mutilated from Dioskurides)
- → Latin: būnias
Further reading
- “βουνιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βουνιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βουνιάς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بُوشاد”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 278a