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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

  • πάντων δ’ ἀποπειραθεὶσ τῶν προσώπων ἄλλον ἄλλωσ ὑπῄει, γίνεται δὲ προηγουμένωσ μισθωτὸσ Ἀντιπάτρου καὶ προδότησ Ἀλεξάνδρου, τῷ μὲν ὀνειδίζων, εἰ πρεσβύτατοσ ὢν περιόψεται τοὺσ ἐφεδρεύοντασ αὐτοῦ ταῖσ ἐλπίσιν, Ἀλεξάνδρῳ δέ, εἰ γεγενημένοσ ἐκ βασιλίδοσ καὶ βασιλίδι συνοικῶν ἐάσει διαδέχεσθαι τὴν ἀρχὴν τὸν ἐξ ἰδιώτιδοσ, καὶ ταῦτα μεγίστην ἀφορμὴν ἔχων Ἀρχέλαον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 731:1)

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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