βοῦττις

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

According to Beekes, the word is evidently Pre-Greek, because of the alternation -τ-/-ττ-.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

βοῦττῐς • (boûttis) f (genitive βούττῐος); third declension

  1. vessel in the shape of the frustum of a cone

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βοῦττῐς; τῆς βούττῐος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ βοῦττῐς
hē boûttis 		τὼ βούττῐε
tṑ boúttie 		αἱ βούττῐες
hai boútties
Genitive τῆς βούττῐος
tês boúttios 		τοῖν βουττῐ́οιν
toîn bouttíoin 		τῶν βουττῐ́ων
tôn bouttíōn
Dative τῇ βούττῑ
têi boúttī 		τοῖν βουττῐ́οιν
toîn bouttíoin 		ταῖς βούττῐσῐ / βούττῐσῐν
taîs boúttisi(n)
Accusative τὴν βοῦττῐν
tḕn boûttin 		τὼ βούττῐε
tṑ boúttie 		τᾱ̀ς βούττῑς / βούττῐᾰς
tā̀s boúttīs / boúttias
Vocative βοῦττῐ
boûtti 		βούττῐε
boúttie 		βούττῐες
boútties
Notes:

Descendants

  • → Latin: buttis
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فوچی (fuçi)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βοῦ(τ)τις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 233

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