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βασιλεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βασιλεύς βασιλέως

Structure: βασιλευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. chief, master
  2. king, lord, patron
  3. the first of any class of people/objects

Declension

Third declension

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

  • εὐγνώμων, φιλόμουσοσ, ἐρωτικόσ, εἰσ ἄκρον ἁδύσ, εἰδὼσ τὸν φιλέοντα, τὸν οὐ φιλέοντ’ ἔτι μᾶλλον, πολλοῖσ πολλὰ διδούσ, αἰτεύμενοσ οὐκ ἀνανεύων οἱᾶ χρὴ βασιλῆ’· (Theocritus, Idylls, 59)
  • ἢ τὸ μὲν οὐχί, ἀφ’ Ἡρακλέουσ δὲ γενέθλησ πενθήσει βασιλῆ φθίμενον Λακεδαίμονοσ οὖροσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 962)
  • ὑμῖν δ’, ὦ Σπάρτησ οἰκήτορεσ εὐρυχόροιο, ἢ μέγα ἄστυ ἐρικυδὲσ ὑπ’ ἀνδράσι Περσεί̈δῃσι πέρθεται, ἢ τὸ μὲν οὐχί, ἀφ’ Ἡρακλέουσ δὲ γενέθλησ πενθήσει βασιλῆ φθίμενον Λακεδαίμονοσ οὖροσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 220 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. chief

  2. king

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