Ancient Greek

Adverb

βουστροφηδόν • ‎(boustrophēdón)

1. boustrophedon: a manner of writing which alternated between left to right and right to left directions (similar to the back and forth pattern of someone plowing a field with an ox); an intermediate between the inherited right to left direction used by Semitic languages and the left to right direction ultimately used in later Greek.

Descendants

• English: boustrophedon

References

• βουστροφηδόν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «βουστροφηδόν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βουστροφηδόν» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)