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βασανιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βασανιστής βασανιστοῦ

Structure: βασανιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: basani/zw

Sense

  1. questioner, torturer, tormentor

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βασανιστής βασανιστᾱ́ βασανισταί
Genitive βασανιστοῦ βασανισταῖν βασανιστῶν
Dative βασανιστῇ βασανισταῖν βασανισταῖς
Accusative βασανιστήν βασανιστᾱ́ βασανιστᾱ́ς
Vocative βασανιστά βασανιστᾱ́ βασανισταί

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

  • οἱ βασανισταὶ δ’ οὐκ ἐπείνων, καὶ γὰρ ἧττον ἂν ὠμὸν ἦν τὸ μετ’ ἀνάγκησ, γυμνάζοντεσ δὲ τὴν ἀπόνοιαν καὶ προπαρασκευάζοντεσ αὑτοῖσ εἰσ τὰσ ἑξῆσ ἡμέρασ ἐφόδια. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 492:1)

Synonyms

  1. questioner

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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