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βόας (boas)

βόας is an Ancient Greek form of βοῦς, meaning “ox, cow; (pl.) cattle”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 142 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.356: δεῦρο βόας ἀγέληθεν ἐὺ κρίναντας ἐλάσσαι,

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 16.97: λεπτὰ διαστήσαιντο, βοᾶς δʼ ἔτι μηδʼ ὄνομʼ εἴη.

Euripides, Hippolytus 571: τίνα θροεῖς αὐδάν; τίνα βοᾷς λόγον;

All forms of βοῦς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.