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βότρυν (botryn)

βότρυν is an Ancient Greek form of βότρυς, meaning “cluster of grapes”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 231: οἰνάνθας ἱεῖσα βότρυν,

Strabo, Geography 16.2.18: … , καθάπερ οἱ τὸν Λίβανον ἔχοντες ἄνω μὲν ἐν τῷ ὄρει Σιννᾶν καὶ Βορραμὰ καὶ ἄλλα τοιαῦτα ἔχουσι τείχη, κάτω δὲ Βότρυν καὶ Γίγαρτον καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάττης σπήλαια καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ Θεοῦ προσώπῳ φρούριον ἐπιτεθέν, ἃ κατέσπασε Πομπήι …

All forms of βότρυς (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.