βουκράνιον
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From of βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “cranium, head”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /buː.krǎː.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /buˈkra.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βuˈkra.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vuˈkra.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vuˈkra.ni.on/
Noun
[edit]βουκρᾱ́νῐον • (boukrā́nion) n (genitive βουκρᾱνῐ́ου); second declension
- ox-head, bucranium
- black bryony (Tamus communis)
- Synonym: ἄμπελος μἐλαινα (ámpelos melaina)
- calf's snout (Antirrhinum orontium)
- Synonyms: ἀνάρρινον (anárrhinon), ἀντίρρινον (antírrhinon), κυνοκεφάλιον (kunokephálion), πῐθήκῐον (pithḗkion)
- fleawort (Plantago psyllium)
- Synonyms: κρυστᾰ́λλῐον (krustállion), κυνοκέφαλον (kunoképhalon), ψύλλιον (psúllion)
- (medicine) machine for reducing dislocations
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βουκρᾱ́νῐον tò boukrā́nion |
τὼ βουκρᾱνῐ́ω tṑ boukrāníō |
τᾰ̀ βουκρᾱ́νῐᾰ tà boukrā́nia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βουκρᾱνῐ́ου toû boukrāníou |
τοῖν βουκρᾱνῐ́οιν toîn boukrāníoin |
τῶν βουκρᾱνῐ́ων tôn boukrāníōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βουκρᾱνῐ́ῳ tôi boukrāníōi |
τοῖν βουκρᾱνῐ́οιν toîn boukrāníoin |
τοῖς βουκρᾱνῐ́οις toîs boukrāníois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βουκρᾱ́νῐον tò boukrā́nion |
τὼ βουκρᾱνῐ́ω tṑ boukrāníō |
τᾰ̀ βουκρᾱ́νῐᾰ tà boukrā́nia | ||||||||||
Vocative | βουκρᾱ́νῐον boukrā́nion |
βουκρᾱνῐ́ω boukrāníō |
βουκρᾱ́νῐᾰ boukrā́nia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “βουκράνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βουκράνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βουκράνιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
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