βοτάνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βόσκω (bóskō, “to feed, tend”) +‎ -ᾰ́νη (-ắnē, instrument noun suffix).^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bo.tá.nɛː/ → /βoˈta.ni/ → /voˈta.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bo.tá.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /boˈta.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βoˈta.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /voˈta.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /voˈta.ni/

Noun

βοτᾰ́νη • (botắnē) f (genitive βοτᾰ́νης); first declension

1. grass, fodder, pasture
2. herb

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βοτᾰ́νη hē botắnē	τὼ βοτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ botắnā	αἱ βοτᾰ́ναι hai botắnai
Genitive	τῆς βοτᾰ́νης tês botắnēs	τοῖν βοτᾰ́ναιν toîn botắnain	τῶν βοτᾰνῶν tôn botănôn
Dative	τῇ βοτᾰ́νῃ têi botắnēi	τοῖν βοτᾰ́ναιν toîn botắnain	ταῖς βοτᾰ́ναις taîs botắnais
Accusative	τὴν βοτᾰ́νην tḕn botắnēn	τὼ βοτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ botắnā	τᾱ̀ς βοτᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s botắnās
Vocative	βοτᾰ́νη botắnē	βοτᾰ́νᾱ botắnā	βοτᾰ́ναι botắnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ἡ βοτᾰ́νη; τῆς βοτᾰ́νης (Attic)

Derived terms

• βοτανικός (botanikós)
• ἱεροβοτάνη (hierobotánē)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βόσκω (> DER > βοτάνη ’fodder’)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 227-8

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 (2006–2025)
• 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.
  • fodder idem, page 331.
  • grass idem, page 370.
  • pasture idem, page 598.
  • provender idem, page 654.
  • turf idem, page 901.
• “βοτάνη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011