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βασιλίς?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: basilis

Principal Part: βασιλίς βασιλίδος

Structure: βασιλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

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

명사

형용사

동사

수사

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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