βουνιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βουνός (bounós, “hill”) +‎ -ιάς (-iás).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /buː.ni.ás/ → /βu.niˈas/ → /vu.niˈas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /buː.ni.ás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bu.niˈas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βu.niˈas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vu.niˈas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vu.niˈas/

Noun

βουνιάς • (bouniás) f (genitive βουνιάδος); third declension

1. rapeseed, Brassica napus

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βουνῐᾰ́ς; τῆς βουνῐᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βουνῐᾰ́ς hē bouniás	τὼ βουνῐᾰ́δε tṑ bouniáde	αἱ βουνῐᾰ́δες hai bouniádes
Genitive	τῆς βουνῐᾰ́δος tês bouniádos	τοῖν βουνῐᾰ́δοιν toîn bouniádoin	τῶν βουνῐᾰ́δων tôn bouniádōn
Dative	τῇ βουνῐᾰ́δῐ têi bouniádi	τοῖν βουνῐᾰ́δοιν toîn bouniádoin	ταῖς βουνῐᾰ́σῐ / βουνῐᾰ́σῐν taîs bouniási(n)
Accusative	τὴν βουνῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn bouniáda	τὼ βουνῐᾰ́δε tṑ bouniáde	τᾱ̀ς βουνῐᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s bouniádas
Vocative	βουνῐᾰ́ς bouniás	βουνῐᾰ́δε bouniáde	βουνῐᾰ́δες bouniádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Related terms

• βούνιον (boúnion)

Descendants

• →? Arabic: بُوشَاد (būšād), بُرْشَاد (buršād), بُورْشَاد (būršād), بُوشْيَاد (būšyād) (a word quoted after lost authors in medieval herbaries and drugbooks and reckoned “Persian”, after Vullers mayhaps mutilated from Dioskurides)
• → Latin: būnias

Further reading

• “βουνιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βουνιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βουνιάς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بُوشاد”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 278a