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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βασιλεύς βασιλή βασιλής
Genitive βασιλέως βασιλέοιν βασιλέων
Dative βασιλεί βασιλέοιν βασιλεῦσιν*
Accusative βασιλέα βασιλή βασιλέᾱς
Vocative βασιλεύ βασιλή βασιλής

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

  • ὦ βασιλῆσ, ὑμεῖσ δὲ καταφράζεσθε καὶ αὐτοὶ τήνδε δίκην· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 30:1)
  • ταῦτα φυλασσόμενοι, βασιλῆσ, ἰθύνετε δίκασ δωροφάγοι, σκολιέων δὲ δικέων ἐπὶ πάγχυ λάθεσθε. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 30:7)
  • οὐκέτι Τροία τάδε καὶ βασιλῆσ ἐσμεν Τροίασ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, anapests3)
  • οὕτωσ ὑμῶν ὑπεραλγῶ, οἵτινεσ ὄντεσ πρότερον βασιλῆσ ‐ ἡμεῖσ βασιλῆσ; (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, epirrheme7)

Synonyms

  1. chief

  2. king

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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