βυθός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly a metathesis from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb-, with cognates including Old Church Slavonic дъно (dŭno), Old English dēop (English deep) and Albanian det (from Proto-Albanian *deubeta). Unrelated to βᾰθῠ́ς (bathús) and βένθος (bénthos).

Alternately, cognate to Sanskrit गाध (gādha, “bottom, ford, shallows, standing-ground in water”).

Also compare the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- with meaning related to swelling, as in a deepening.

However, Beekes rejects Indo-European origin, and assigns it to Pre-Greek instead.[1]

Pronunciation
 

Noun

βῠθός • (buthós) m (genitive βῠθοῦ); second declension

  1. depth
  2. depth of the sea, deep water

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ βῠθός; τοῦ βῠθοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ βῠθός
ho buthós		 τὼ βῠθώ
tṑ buthṓ		 οἱ βῠθοί
hoi buthoí
Genitive τοῦ βῠθοῦ
toû buthoû		 τοῖν βῠθοῖν
toîn buthoîn		 τῶν βῠθῶν
tôn buthôn
Dative τῷ βῠθῷ
tôi buthôi		 τοῖν βῠθοῖν
toîn buthoîn		 τοῖς βῠθοῖς
toîs buthoîs
Accusative τὸν βῠθόν
tòn buthón		 τὼ βῠθώ
tṑ buthṓ		 τοὺς βῠθούς
toùs buthoús
Vocative βῠθέ
buthé		 βῠθώ
buthṓ		 βῠθοί
buthoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: βυθός (vythós)

References
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βυθός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 247

Further reading

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek βυθός (buthós).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /viˈθos/

Noun

βυθός • (vythós) m (plural βυθοί)

  1. seabed, riverbed, bottom, ground

Declension
declension of βυθός
case     \     number singular plural
nominative βυθός • βυθοί •
genitive βυθού • βυθών •
accusative βυθό • βυθούς •
vocative βυθέ • βυθοί •

Further reading
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