βάτος

See also: βατός and Βάττος

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

Said by Beekes to be a Mediterranean wanderwort; substrate common to μαντία (mantía, “blackberry”) (Dacian loan), and Albanian man (“mulberry”), Gheg mand.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bá.tos/ → /ˈβa.tos/ → /ˈva.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bá.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈba.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.tos/

Noun

βᾰ́τος • (bátos) f (genitive βᾰ́του); second declension

1. blackberry (Rubus ulmifolius)
2. (masculine) fish, a kind of skate

   see βατίς f (batís)

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ βᾰ́τος; τῆς βᾰ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾰ́τος hē bátos	τὼ βᾰ́τω tṑ bátō	αἱ βᾰ́τοι hai bátoi
Genitive	τῆς βᾰ́του tês bátou	τοῖν βᾰ́τοιν toîn bátoin	τῶν βᾰ́των tôn bátōn
Dative	τῇ βᾰ́τῳ têi bátōi	τοῖν βᾰ́τοιν toîn bátoin	ταῖς βᾰ́τοις taîs bátois
Accusative	τὴν βᾰ́τον tḕn báton	τὼ βᾰ́τω tṑ bátō	τᾱ̀ς βᾰ́τους tā̀s bátous
Vocative	βᾰ́τε báte	βᾰ́τω bátō	βᾰ́τοι bátoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βατία (batía)
• βατίον (batíon)
• βατοδρόπος (batodrópos)
• βατόεις (batóeis)
• βάτον (báton)
• κυνόσβατος (kunósbatos)

 

Descendants

• Greek: βάτος (vátos)
• → Amharic: ባጦስ (baṭos)
• → Arabic: بَاطُس (bāṭus)
• → Coptic: ⲃⲁⲧⲟⲥ (batos)
• ⇒ English: batology
• → Ge'ez: ባጦስ (baṭos), ጳጦስ (p̣aṭos), ጰጦስ (p̣äṭos)
• → Latin: batus

Etymology 2

From Hebrew בַּת (baṯ).

Alternative forms

• βάδος (bádos)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bá.tos/ → /ˈβa.tos/ → /ˈva.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bá.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈba.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.tos/

Noun

βάτος • (bátos) m (genitive βάτου); second declension

1. bath, a Hebrew liquid measure

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βᾰ́τος; τοῦ βᾰ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βᾰ́τος ho bátos	τὼ βᾰ́τω tṑ bátō	οἱ βᾰ́τοι hoi bátoi
Genitive	τοῦ βᾰ́του toû bátou	τοῖν βᾰ́τοιν toîn bátoin	τῶν βᾰ́των tôn bátōn
Dative	τῷ βᾰ́τῳ tôi bátōi	τοῖν βᾰ́τοιν toîn bátoin	τοῖς βᾰ́τοις toîs bátois
Accusative	τὸν βᾰ́τον tòn báton	τὼ βᾰ́τω tṑ bátō	τοὺς βᾰ́τους toùs bátous
Vocative	βᾰ́τε báte	βᾰ́τω bátō	βᾰ́τοι bátoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βάτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βάτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βάτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάτος. The fish, from βατίς f (vatís)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.tos/

Noun

βάτος • (vátos) m or f (plural βάτοι)

1. bramble
2. (dated, masculine only) a kind of skate fish, superorder Batoidea

   Synonyms: σαλάχι (saláchi), σελάχι (seláchi), ρίνα (rína), (dated) βατί (vatí)

Declension

declension of βάτος (irregular, double gender, double plural)

	singular (masculine-feminine)	plural (masculine-feminine)	plural (neutral)
nominative	ο •/η • βάτος •	οι • βάτοι •	τα • βάτα •
genitive	του •/της • βάτου •	των • βάτων •	των • βάτων •
accusative	τον •/τη • βάτο •	τους •/τις • βάτους •	τα • βάτα •
vocative (ε!)	βάτε •	βάτοι •	βάτα •
Singular & plural: masculine and femine. Plural also neutral

Related terms

• βατόμουρο n (vatómouro, “blackberry”)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: واطوس (vatos), واطوز (vatoz)
  • Turkish: vatoz
• → Romanian: vatos

Further reading

• βατόμουρο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el