"Βόσπορος" meaning in Ancient Greek

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Proper name

IPA: /bós.po.ros/, /ˈβos.po.ros/, /ˈvos.po.ros/, /bós.po.ros/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈbos.po.ros/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈβos.po.ros/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈvos.po.ros/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈvos.po.ros/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: By ancient folk etymology, from βοός (boós, “cow”) + πόρος (póros, “passage”), referring to a Greek myth (told, for example, by Aeschylus in his Prometheus Bound) in which Io travelled there after being turned into a heifer by Hera (or in other versions by Zeus). (See Io (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia) Etymology templates: {{pedia|Io (mythology)}} Io (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Head templates: {{grc-proper noun|Βοσπόρου|m|second}} Βόσπορος • (Bósporos) m (genitive Βοσπόρου); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|Βόσπορος|ου|form=MS}} Forms: Bósporos [romanization], Βοσπόρου [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ὁ Βόσπορος [nominative, singular], τοῦ Βοσπόρου [genitive, singular], τῷ Βοσπόρῳ [dative, singular], τὸν Βόσπορον [accusative, singular], Βόσπορε [singular, vocative]
  1. Bosporus Wikipedia link: Aeschylus, Bosporus, Prometheus Bound Derived forms: Βοσπόρειος (Bospóreios), Βοσπορίτης (Bosporítēs)

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