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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

  • οὔθ’ ἱματίων βαπτῶν δαπάναισ κοσμῆσαι ποικιλομόρφων. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme29)
  • "καὶ περὶ αὐτῶν δὲ τῶν Ἐφεσίων Δημόκριτοσ ὁ Ἐφέσιοσ ἐν τῷ προτέρῳ περὶ τοῦ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ Ναοῦ διηγούμενοσ περὶ τῆσ χλιδῆσ αὐτῶν καὶ ὧν ἐφόρουν βαπτῶν ἱματίων γράφει καὶ τάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:70)
  • κόγχοσ ἦν βάπτων αὐλῶν ὁμοίωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 33 1:7)
  • θερμὰ τ’ ἔδειν τεμάχη βάπτων δριμεῖαν ἐσ ἅλμην καὶ ξήρ’ ἂν ἐθέλῃσ ἔσθειν γενναῖα πέλονται, ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι φυὴν καὶ εἶδοσ ὅμοια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 67 2:3)
  • "ἢ τίν’ Ὀρχομενίων τοῖσ ἀποβαλοῦσι παῖδασ καὶ φίλουσ καὶ οἰκείουσ ὑπὸ Λυκίσκου προδοθέντασ ἤνεγκε παραμυθίαν ἡ χρόνοισ ὕστερον πολλοῖσ ἁψαμένη νόσοσ καὶ κατανεμηθεῖσα τοῦ σώματοσ ὅσον ἀεὶ βάπτων καὶ βρέχων εἰσ τὸν ποταμὸν ὤμοσε καὶ κατηράσατο σαπῆναι, προδόντοσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀδικήσαντοσ; (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 211)

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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