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βασίλειον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: βασίλειον βασίλειου

Structure: βασιλει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: basileu/s

Sense

  1. a kingly dwelling, palace
  2. the royal treasury

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βασίλειον βασιλείω βασίλεια
Genitive βασιλείου βασιλείοιν βασιλείων
Dative βασιλείῳ βασιλείοιν βασιλείοις
Accusative βασίλειον βασιλείω βασίλεια
Vocative βασίλειον βασιλείω βασίλεια

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

  • προϊώμεν δὲ ἤδη τὴν ἐπὶ Κορίνθου διὰ τῆσ ὀρεινῆσ ἐπευξάμενοι τῷ βασιλείῳ Διί· (Lucian, 54:1)
  • ἀναγράψαντεσ δὲ τοὺσ νόμουσ εἰσ τοὺσ κύρβεισ ἔστησαν ἐν τῇ στοᾷ τῇ βασιλείῳ καὶ ὤμοσαν χρήσεσθαι πάντεσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 7 1:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἐν τῷ βασιλείῳ. (Plutarch, chapter 2 2:4)
  • ἀμφὶ δὲ νόστῳ τῷ βασιλείῳ καὶ πολυχρύσου στρατιᾶσ ἤδη κακόμαντισ ἄγαν ὀρσολοπεῖται θυμὸσ ἔσωθεν. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests2)
  • ὦ πότνια χθὼν καὶ πότνι’ ἀκτὴ χώματοσ, ἣ νῦν ἐπὶ ναυάρχῳ σώματι κεῖσαι τῷ βασιλείῳ, νῦν ἐπάκουσον, νῦν ἐπάρηξον· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests2)

Synonyms

  1. the royal treasury

Related

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

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