Βόσπορος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

By ancient folk etymology, from βοός (boós, “cow”) + πόρος (póros, “passage”), referring to a Greek myth (told, for example, by Aeschylus in his Prometheus Bound) in which Io travelled there after being turned into a heifer by Hera (or in other versions by Zeus). (See Io (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Βόσπορος • (Bósporos) m (genitive Βοσπόρου); second declension

  1. Bosporus

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Βόσπορος; τοῦ Βοσπόρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Βόσπορος
ho Bósporos
Genitive τοῦ Βοσπόρου
toû Bospórou
Dative τῷ Βοσπόρῳ
tôi Bospórōi
Accusative τὸν Βόσπορον
tòn Bósporon
Vocative Βόσπορε
Bóspore
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: Βόσπορος (Vósporos)
  • → Latin: Bosporus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading
  • “Βόσπορος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Βόσπορος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
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