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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative βαπτός βαπτή βάπτον
Genitive βαπτοῦ βαπτῆς βάπτου
Dative βαπτῷ βαπτῇ βάπτῳ
Accusative βαπτόν βαπτήν βάπτον
Vocative βαπτέ βαπτή βάπτον
DualN/A/V βαπτώ βαπτᾱ́ βάπτω
G/D βαπτοῖν βαπταῖν βάπτοιν
PluralNominative βαπτοί βαπταί βάπτα
Genitive βαπτῶν βαπτῶν βάπτων
Dative βαπτοῖς βαπταῖς βάπτοις
Accusative βαπτούς βαπτᾱ́ς βάπτα
Vocative βαπτοί βαπταί βάπτα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective βαπτός βαπτοῦ βαπτότερος βαπτοτεροῦ βαπτότατος βαπτοτατοῦ
Adverb βάπτως βαπτότερον βαπτότατα

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

  • ἀνέγνωσ καὶ τοὺσ Βάπτασ, τὸ δρᾶμα ὅλον; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 27:10)
  • χρυσοφοροῦσί τε γάρ, περὶ μὲν τοῖσ τραχήλοισ στρεπτὰ ἔχοντεσ περὶ δὲ τοῖσ βραχίοσι καὶ τοῖσ καρποῖσ ψέλια, καὶ τὰσ ἐσθῆτασ βαπτὰσ φοροῦσι καὶ χρυσοπάστουσ οἱ ἐν ἀξιώματι. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 4 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. dipped

  2. for dyeing

Related

Similar forms

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

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