βουνιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βουνός (bounós, hill) + -ιάς (-iás).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

βουνιάς • (bouniás) f (genitive βουνιάδος); third declension

  1. rapeseed, Brassica napus

Declension

Descendants

  • ? Arabic: بُوشَاد (būšād), بُرْشَاد (buršād), بُورْشَاد (būršād), بُوشْيَاد (būšyād) (a word quoted after lost authors in medieval herbaries and drugbooks and reckoned “Persian”, after Vullers mayhaps mutilated from Dioskurides)
  • Latin: būnias

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