βόνασος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βόνᾰσσος (bónassos)

Etymology

Unexplained. Generally considered to be a loanword from an Proto-Indo-European language. There have been attempts to connect it with βόλινθος (bólinthos), which is quite uncertain. Furnée tries to connect it with μόναπος (mónapos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bó.naː.sos/ → /ˈβo.na.sos/ → /ˈvo.na.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bó.naː.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.na.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβo.na.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.na.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.na.sos/

Noun

βόνᾱσος • (bónāsos) m (genitive βονᾱ́σου); second declension

1. European bison

   Synonyms: βόλῐνθος (bólinthos), μόνᾰπος (mónapos)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ βόνᾱσος; τοῦ βονᾱ́σου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βόνᾱσος ho bónāsos	τὼ βονᾱ́σω tṑ bonā́sō	οἱ βόνᾱσοι hoi bónāsoi
Genitive	τοῦ βονᾱ́σου toû bonā́sou	τοῖν βονᾱ́σοιν toîn bonā́soin	τῶν βονᾱ́σων tôn bonā́sōn
Dative	τῷ βονᾱ́σῳ tôi bonā́sōi	τοῖν βονᾱ́σοιν toîn bonā́soin	τοῖς βονᾱ́σοις toîs bonā́sois
Accusative	τὸν βόνᾱσον tòn bónāson	τὼ βονᾱ́σω tṑ bonā́sō	τοὺς βονᾱ́σους toùs bonā́sous
Vocative	βόνᾱσε bónāse	βονᾱ́σω bonā́sō	βόνᾱσοι bónāsoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: bonāsus

Further reading

• “βόνασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βόνασος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βόνασος 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