Kata bahasa Indonesia English word

Table of Contents -- boustrophedon POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY

Link, Gadget and Share

boustrophedon

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

bou=stro=phe=don

top

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun boustrophedon has 1 sense

boustrophedon(n = noun.communication) - an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs';

is a kind of

orthography

writing system

Derived form adjective boustrophedonic₁

top

CIDE DICTIONARY

boustrophedon, n. [Gr. turning like oxen in plowing; to turn.].

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite. [1913 Webster]

top

OXFORD DICTIONARY

boustrophedon, adj. & adv. (of written words) from right to left and from left to right in alternate lines.

Etymology

Gk (adv.) = as an ox turns in ploughing f. bous ox + -strophos turning