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βάιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάιον

Structure: βαι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = ba/is, NTest.

Sense

  1. a palm-branch

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅσα δὴ δέδηγμαι τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ καρδίαν, ἥσθην δὲ βαιά, πάνυ δὲ βαιά, τέτταρα· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 1:1)
  • "μεμαγμένην μικρὰν μελαγχρῆ μᾶζαν ἠχυρωμένην ἑκάτεροσ ἡμῶν εἶχε δὶσ τῆσ ἡμέρασ καὶ σῦκα βαιά· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5264)
  • εἴ τισ καθείρξαι χρυσὸν ἐν δόμοισ πολλὸν καὶ σῦκα βαιὰ καὶ δύ’ ἢ τρεῖσ ἀνθρώπουσ, γνοίη χ’ ὅσῳ τὰ σῦκα τοῦ χρυσοῦ κρέσσω. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 15 2:2)
  • νῆσόσ τισ ἔστι πρόσθε Σαλαμῖνοσ τόπων, βαιά, δύσορμοσ ναυσίν, ἣν ὁ φιλόχοροσ Πὰν ἐμβατεύει, ποντίασ ἀκτῆσ ἔπι. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 4:9)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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