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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

  • ἔνθα ποτὲ Παλλὰσ ἔμολε καὶ δολιόφρων Κύπρισ Ἥρα θ’ Ἑρμᾶσ θ’, ὁ Διὸσ ἄγγελοσ, ἃ μὲν ἐπὶ πόθῳ τρυφῶσα Κύπρισ, ἃ δὲ δορὶ Παλλάσ, Ἥρα τε Διὸσ ἄνακτοσ εὐναῖσι βασιλίσιν, κρίσιν ἐπὶ στυγνὰν ἔριν τε καλλονᾶσ, ἐμοὶ δὲ θάνατον ‐ ὄνομα μὲν φέροντα Δαναί̈‐ δαισιν, ὦ κόραι, πρόθυμα δ’ ἔλαβεν Ἄρτεμισ πρὸσ Ἴλιον. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, lyric7)

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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