βρότος

See also: βροτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain.

Perhaps related to Sanskrit मूर्त (mūrtá-, “clotted, coagulated”) (related to the verb मूर्छति (mūrchati, “to congeal, thicken, become solid, stiffen”); see मूर्छ् (mūrch) for more), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥H-tó-, but this requires an unexplained loss of the laryngeal.

Various attempts to link this term with βροτός (brotós) and ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos) have been made; Frisk and Beekes following him reject these as improbable. Schulze proposes a common origin with ἀμφιβρότη (amphibrótē, “covering the body on all sides”) from an unattested *βροτόν (*brotón, “body”) which may be further related to Sanskrit मूर्ति (mū́rti-, “body, figure, form”); this is also rejected.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bró.tos/ → /ˈβro.tos/ → /ˈvro.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bró.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbro.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβro.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.tos/

Noun

βρότος • (brótos) m (genitive βρότου); second declension

1. blood that has run from a wound, gore

   Synonym: λύθρον (lúthron)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βρότος; τοῦ βρότου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ βρότος ho brótos
Genitive	τοῦ βρότου toû brótou
Dative	τῷ βρότῳ tôi brótōi
Accusative	τὸν βρότον tòn bróton
Vocative	βρότε bróte
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βροτόεις (brotóeis)

See also

• βροτός (brotós)

Further reading

• Frisk, Hjalmar (1960) “βρότος”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 271
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βρότος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 243
• “βρότος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βρότος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βρότος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βρότος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βρότος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βρότος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)