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|Full diacritics=βόσπορος
|Medium diacritics=βόσπορος
|Low diacritics=βόσπορος
|Capitals=ΒΟΣΠΟΡΟΣ
|Transliteration A=bósporos
|Transliteration B=bosporos
|Transliteration C=vosporos
|Beta Code=bo/sporos
|Definition=ὁ, (βοὸς πόρος Opp.''H.''1.617) wrongly expld. by the Greeks as [[Ox-ford]], name of several straits, βόσπορος  [[Κιμμέριος]], βόσπορος [[Θρᾴκιος]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.12,83, etc. (also applied to the [[Hellespont]] by [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''723, 746, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''884, Sch.adll. cc.):—Adj. [[βοσπόρειος]], ον, S.''Fr.''707: [[βοσπόριος]], α, ον, Id.''Aj.''l.c.: [[βοσπορεῖον]], τό, name of a temple, Dccr.Byz. ap. D.18.91: [[βοσπορίτης]] [ι], ου, ὁ, [[dweller on the Bosporus]], S.''Fr.''503: [[βοσπορανός]] or [[βοσπορηνός]], ὁ, [[inhabitant of the kingdom of Bosporus]], Str.7.4.7, 11.2.10, 16.2.39.
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|dgtxt=v. [[βόσμορον]].
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{{mantoulidis
|mantxt=(=πέρασμα βοδιοῦ, [[πορθμός]]). Σύνθετο ἀπό τίς λέξεις: βοός ([[βοῦς]]) + [[πόρος]].
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