βους | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

An ox or cow; more generally, cattle (bovine livestock). By extension, it can denote a head of cattle or, in some contexts, the animal used for ploughing or sacrifice.

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Grammatical Analysis

"βους"

Case: nominative

Number: singular

Gender: masculine/feminine (common)

Declension: 3rd declension (irregular; stem βο-/βου-)

Related Forms of βοῦς

4 forms discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

βοῦς nominative or accusative or vocative, singular, ma... βόες nominative_or_vocative, plural, masculine bous nominative_or_vocative, singular, masculine_or_fem... βοος genitive, singular, masculine (common gender possi...

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