Ancient Greek

Verb

βόσκω • ‎(bóskō)

1. (of herdsmen) feed, tend
   1. (generally) feed, nourish, support, maintain, keep
2. (passive, of cattle) feed, graze
   1. (figuratively) to be fed or nurtured

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: βόσκω ‎(vósko)

References

• βόσκω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βόσκω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βόσκω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «βόσκω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βόσκω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «βόσκω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1006”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Alternative forms

• βοσκώ ‎(voskó)
• βοσκάω ‎(voskáo)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βόσκω ‎(bóskō, “to feed, to graze”)

Verb

βόσκω • ‎(vósko) ‎(simple past βόσκησα, passive form βόσκομαι)

1. (transitive) graze

Conjugation

Related terms

• βοσκή f ‎(voskí, “pasture, grass”)
• βοσκός m ‎(voskós, “shepherd”)
• βοσκόπουλο m ‎(voskópoulo, “shepherd boy”)
• βοσκοτόπι n ‎(voskotópi, “pasture”)
• βοσκήσιμος ‎(voskísimos, “suitable for pasture”)