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βασσάρα?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: bassara

Principal Part: βασσάρα βασσάρας

Structure: βασσαρ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: = ἀλώπηξ

Sense

  1. a fox
  2. a Thracian bacchanal

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βασσάρα βασσάρα βασσάραι
Genitive βασσάρας βασσάραιν βασσαρῶν
Dative βασσάρᾳ βασσάραιν βασσάραις
Accusative βασσάραν βασσάρα βασσάρας
Vocative βασσάρα βασσάρα βασσάραι

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

  • "μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Μακέται αἱ καλούμεναι Μιμαλλόνες καὶ Βασσάραι καὶ Λυδαί, κατακεχυμέναι τὰς τρίχας καὶ ἐστεφανωμέναι τινὲς μὲν ὄφεσιν, αἱ δὲ μίλακι καὶ ἀμπέλῳ καὶ κισσῷ κατεῖχον δὲ ταῖς χερσὶν αἱ μὲν ἐγχειρίδια, αἱ δὲ ὄφεις. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:121)

Synonyms

  1. a fox

  2. a Thracian bacchanal

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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