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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

  • ἀναγιγνώσκει μοι πρόκλησιν μακράν, ἀξιῶν, ὅν φησιν οἰκέτην ταῦτα συνειδέναι, βασανίζεσθαι, κἂν μὲν ᾖ ταῦτ’ ἀληθῆ, τὴν δίκην ἀτίμητον ὀφλεῖν αὑτῷ, ἐὰν δὲ ψευδῆ, τὸν βασανιστὴν Μνησικλέα ἐπιγνώμον’ εἶναι τῆσ τιμῆσ τῆσ τοῦ παιδόσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 67:1)
  • ἐπειδὴ δ’ ἥκομεν πρὸσ τὸν βασανιστήν, ἀντὶ τοῦ τὴν πρόκλησιν ἀνοίξασ δεῖξαι τὰ γεγραμμένα καὶ κατὰ ταῦτα πράττειν ὅ τι δόξαι διὰ γὰρ τὸν θόρυβον τότε καὶ τὸ μέλλειν καλεῖσθαι τὴν δίκην τοιοῦτον ἦν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 69:1)

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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