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βασιλίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βασιλίς βασιλίδος

Structure: βασιλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = basi/leia

Sense

  1. a queen, princess
  2. royal

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

  • "τοιγαροῦν αὗται μὲν ἐκ τῶν λίαν μαλακῶν ὑπὸ τῆσ τύχησ μεταβιβασθεῖσαι σκληρῶσ ἐβίωσαν ἐπὶ γήρωσ, αἱ δέ, τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν ταῦτα διαδεξαμένων, ἐκπεσοῦσαι τῆσ ἐξουσίασ κατῆραν εἰσ Μακεδονίαν καὶ τὰσ τῶν ἐκεῖ κυρίασ τε καὶ βασιλίδασ ὃν τρόπον ταῖσ ὁμιλίαισ διέθεσαν οὐδὲ λέγειν καλόν, πλὴν ὅτι μαγευόμεναι καὶ μαγεύουσαι ταυροπόλοι καὶ τριοδίτιδεσ αὗται πρὸσ ἀλήθειαν ἐγένοντο, πλήρεισ πάντων ἀποκαθαρμάτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 67 2:14)
  • "Φιλήμων δ’ ἐν Ἀττικαῖσ λέξεσι καλεῖσθαι φησί τινα σῦκα βασίλεια, ἀφ’ ὧν καλεῖσθαι καὶ τὰσ βασιλίδασ ἰσχάδασ, προσιστορῶν ὅτι κόλυθρα καλεῖται τὰ πέπονα σῦκα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 664)

Synonyms

  1. a queen

  2. royal

Related

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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