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

bunch of grapes, grapes
- 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
- 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.528
1. (figurative) clustered earring
  - 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 320.10
(herb) ambrosia (Ambrosia maritima)
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 3.114
1. Jerusalem oak (Dysphania botrys [syn. Chenopodium botrys])
  - 40 CE – 90 CE, 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 hoi bótrŭes
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 bótrŭes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

βότρῠς also appears with a heteroclitic neuter plural in Euphorion 149, probably from the related βότρῠον (bótrŭon):

Second declension of τᾰ̀ βότρῠᾰ; τῶν βοτρῠ́ων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ βότρῠᾰ tằ bótrŭă
Genitive	τῶν βοτρῠ́ων tôn botrŭ́ōn
Dative	τοῖς βοτρῠ́οις toîs botrŭ́ois
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 228
^ 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