# βάτος
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology 1

Said by Beekes to be a Mediterranean wanderwort; substrate common to μαντία (mantía, “blackberry”) (Dacian loan), and Albanian man (“mulberry”), Gheg mand.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bá.tos/ → /ˈβa.tos/ → /ˈva.tos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /bá.tos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈba.tos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈβa.tos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈva.tos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈva.tos/

#### Noun

βᾰ́τος • (bắtos) f (genitive βᾰ́του); second declension
* blackberry (Rubus ulmifolius)
* (masculine) fish, a kind of skate
    see βατίς f (batís)

##### Derived terms

* βατία (batía)
* βατίον (batíon)
* βατοδρόπος (batodrópos)
* βατόεις (batóeis)
* βάτον (báton)
* κυνόσβατος (kunósbatos)

##### Descendants

* Greek: βάτος (vátos)
* → Amharic: ባጦስ (baṭos)
* → Arabic: بَاطُس (bāṭus)
* → Coptic: ⲃⲁⲧⲟⲥ (batos)
* ⇒ English: batology
* → Ge'ez: ባጦስ (baṭos), ጳጦስ (p̣aṭos), ጰጦስ (p̣äṭos)
* → Latin: batus
* ⇒ Translingual: Rhinobatos

### Etymology 2

From Hebrew בַּת (baṯ).

#### Alternative forms

* βάδος (bádos)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bá.tos/ → /ˈβa.tos/ → /ˈva.tos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /bá.tos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈba.tos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈβa.tos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈva.tos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈva.tos/

#### Noun

βάτος • (bátos) m (genitive βάτου); second declension
* bath, a Hebrew liquid measure

##### Inflection
### Further reading

* “βάτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* βάτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* βάτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* 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

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάτος. The fish, from βατίς f (vatís)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈva.tos/

### Noun

βάτος • (vátos) m or f (plural βάτοι)
* bramble
* (dated, masculine only) a kind of skate fish, superorder Batoidea
    Synonyms: σαλάχι (saláchi), σελάχι (seláchi), ρίνα (rína), (dated) βατί (vatí)

#### Declension

| | singular (masculine-feminine) | plural (masculine-feminine) | plural (neutral) |
| nominative | ο (o)/η (i) βάτος (vátos) | οι (oi) βάτοι (vátoi) | τα (ta) βάτα (váta) |
| genitive | του (tou)/της (tis) βάτου (vátou) | των (ton) βάτων (váton) | των (ton) βάτων (váton) |
| accusative | τον (ton)/τη (ti) βάτο (váto) | τους (tous)/τις (tis) βάτους (vátous) | τα (ta) βάτα (váta) |
| vocative (ε!) | βάτε (váte) | βάτοι (vátoi) | βάτα (váta) |
| Singular & plural: masculine and femine. Plural also neutral ||||

#### Related terms

* βατόμουρο n (vatómouro, “blackberry”)

#### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: واطوس (vatos), واطوز (vatoz)
** Turkish: vatoz
* → Romanian: vatos

### References

* ↑ Dimitrakos, Dimitrios B. ($^2$1964) Μέγα λεξικόν ὅλης τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς γλώσσης [Great Dictionary of the entire Greek Language] (in Greek), Athens: Hellenic Paideia 2nd edition in 15 vols. [1st edition 1930-1950 in 9 volumes] (abbreviations - of authors)

### Further reading

* βατόμουρο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$