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βασανιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βασανιστής βασανιστοῦ

Structure: βασανιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: basani/zw

Sense

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)
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)
καὶ ὀργισθεὶσ ὁ κύριοσ αὐτοῦ παρέδωκεν αὐτὸν τοῖσ βασανισταῖσ ἑώσ [οὗ] ἀποδῷ πᾶν τὸ ὀφειλόμενον. (, chapter 11 334:1)

Synonyms

questioner
- βάσανος (inquiry by torture, the "question, " torture)

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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