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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βόσκω (bóskō, “to feed, tend”) + -ᾰ́νη (-ánē, instrument noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo.tá.nɛː/ → /βoˈta.ni/ → /voˈta.ni/
Noun
βοτᾰ́νη • (botánē) f (genitive βοτᾰ́νης); first declension
- grass, fodder, pasture
- herb
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “βοτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βοτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “βοτάνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βοτάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βοτάνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- βοτάνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1008 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- βοτάνη 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.