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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

  • τὰ γὰρ περὶ Βαίασ ἢ Βαίου λιμένα τῆσ Ἰταλίασ παντελῶσ ἄποτα σταθμήσασ τὸ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐν Κορίνθῳ Πειρήνησ καλουμένησ ὕδωρ κουφότερον πάντων εὑρ͂ον τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, οὐ γὰρ Ἀντιφάνει τῷ κωμικῷ πεπίστευκα λέγοντι κατὰ πολλὰ τὴν ’ Ἀττικὴν διαφέρουσαν τῶν ἄλλων καὶ ὕδωρ κάλλιστον ἔχειν, φησὶ γάρ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 17 3:1)
  • τὰσ δὲ Βαίασ ἐπωνύμουσ εἶναι λέγουσι Βαίου τῶν Ὀδυσσέωσ ἑταίρων τινόσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 12:5)
  • καὶ μὴν Κρέοντά γ’ ἴσθι σοι τούτων χάριν ἥξοντα βαιοῦ κοὐχὶ μυρίου χρόνου. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 3:11)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀρότρῳ βραχύβωλον ἐπικνίζοντι χαράσσω χέρσον, καὶ βαιοῦ πίδακα ῥαγὸσ ἔχω. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2382)

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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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