βουνός

See also: Βοῦνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Herodotus, a Cyrenaic word; however, more recent research by Solmsen indicates a dialectal Doric origin instead. Based on variants of the related βουνιάς (bouniás, “Brassica napus”), such as μουνιάς (mouniás) and μουνιαδικόν (mouniadikón), Furnee takes the word as Pre-Greek and compares Basque muno (“hill”), apparently from the same substrate source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /buː.nós/ → /βuˈnos/ → /vuˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /buː.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /buˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βuˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vuˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vuˈnos/

Noun

βουνός • (bounós) m (genitive βουνοῦ); second declension

1. hill, heap
2. mound
3. altar
4. blood clot

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βουνός; τοῦ βουνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βουνός ho bounós	τὼ βουνώ tṑ bounṓ	οἱ βουνοί hoi bounoí
Genitive	τοῦ βουνοῦ toû bounoû	τοῖν βουνοῖν toîn bounoîn	τῶν βουνῶν tôn bounôn
Dative	τῷ βουνῷ tôi bounôi	τοῖν βουνοῖν toîn bounoîn	τοῖς βουνοῖς toîs bounoîs
Accusative	τὸν βουνόν tòn bounón	τὼ βουνώ tṑ bounṓ	τοὺς βουνούς toùs bounoús
Vocative	βουνέ bouné	βουνώ bounṓ	βουνοί bounoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: βουνό (vounó)
• Mariupol Greek: вуно́ (vunó)

Further reading

• “βουνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βουνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βουνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• βουνός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1015 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible