# βότρυς
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Considered Pre-Greek, but also Semitic, relating to Hebrew בֹּסֶר (boser, “unripe grape”), Arabic بُسْر (busr, “unripe dates”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic בֻּסְרָא (busrā), בּוּסְרָא (busrā, “unripe grape”), Hebrew בֹּסֶר (boser, “unripe grape”), Classical Syriac ܒܣܪܐ (*busrā, “unripe grape”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bó.trys/ → /ˈβo.trys/ → /ˈvo.tris/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /bó.trys/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈbo.trys/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈβo.trys/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈvo.trys/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈvo.tris/

### Noun

βότρῠς • (bótrŭs) m (genitive βότρῠος); third declension
* bunch of grapes, grapes
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.562
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Regimen 2.55
** 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 7.225b
** Palatine Anthology 5.286
** 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.528
** (figurative) clustered earring
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 320.10
* (herb) ambrosia (Ambrosia maritima)
** 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 3.114
** Jerusalem oak (Dysphania botrys [syn. Chenopodium botrys])
*** 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 115
* the Pleiades
** Sch.Il. 18.486

#### Declension

βότρῠς also appears with a heteroclitic neuter plural in Euphorion 149, probably from the related βότρῠον (bótrŭon):

#### Synonyms

* (ambrosia, Ambrosia maritima): ἀμβροσῐ́ᾱ (ambrosĭ́ā), ἀρτεμισῐ́ᾱ (artemisĭ́ā)

#### Derived terms

* ἀγλαόβοτρῠς (aglaóbotrŭs)
* βοτρεύς (botreús)
* βοτρῡ́δῐον (botrū́dĭon)
* βοτρῡδόν (botrūdón)
* βοτρῠηρός (botrŭērós)
* βοτρῠηφόρος (botrŭēphóros)
* βοτρῠ́ϊος (botrŭ́ïos)
* βοτρῠΐτης (botrŭḯtēs)
* βοτρῠῖτῐς (botrŭîtĭs)
* βοτρῠμός (botrŭmós)
* βοτρῠόδωρος (botrŭódōros)
* βοτρῠοειδής (botrŭoeidḗs)
* βοτρῠόεις (botrŭóeis)
* βοτρῠόκοσμος (botrŭókosmos)
* βότρῠον (bótrŭon)
* βοτρῠόομαι (botrŭóomai)
* βοτρῠόπαις (botrŭópais)
* βοτρῠοστᾰγής (botrŭostăgḗs)
* βοτρῠοστέφᾰνος (botrŭostéphănos)
* βοτρῠοφορέω (botrŭophoréō)
* βοτρῠοχαίτης (botrŭokhaítēs)
* βότρῠχος (bótrŭkhos)
* βοτρῠχώδης (botrŭkhṓdēs)
* βοτρῠώδης (botrŭṓdēs)
* εὔβοτρῠς (eúbotrŭs)
* καλλίβοτρῠς (kallíbotrŭs)
* μικρόβοτρῠς (mikróbotrŭs)
* ποικιλόβοτρῠς (poikilóbotrŭs)
* πολύβοτρῠς (polúbotrŭs)
* φερέβοτρῠς (pherébotrŭs)
* φιλόβοτρῠς (philóbotrŭs)

#### Descendants

* Tsakonian: βότσχε (vótsche)
* Latin: bō̆trys, bō̆trus, bō̆truōsus, bō̆trōnātus
** → English: botriform, botrycymose, botrylle, botryogen, botryoid, stachybotryotoxicosis, botrytis

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 228
* ↑ Brown, John Pairman (1995) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume I, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pages 155–156
* ↑ Szemerényi, Oswald (1971) “Pierre Chantraine: Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: Histoire des mots”, in Gnomon‎, volume 43, page 661
* ↑ Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, page 356

### Further reading

* “βότρυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “βότρυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “βότρυς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* βότρυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* βότρυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* βότρυς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* G1009 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* βότρυς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. cluster idem, page 140.grape idem, page 369.vine idem, page 953.