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βαπτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βαπτός

Structure: βαπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ba/ptw

Sense

  1. dipped, dyed, bright-coloured
  2. for dyeing
  3. drawn by dipping vessels

Examples

  • ὅτι δὲ καὶ χαλκοῦν ἦν, Εὔπολισ ἐν Βάπταισ λέγει · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 3 1:2)
  • Εὔπολισ δ’ ἐν Βάπταισ φησὶν ὃσ καλῶσ μὲν τυμπανίζει καὶ διαψάλλει τριγώνοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 82 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. dipped

  2. for dyeing

Related

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

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