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βασσάρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βασσάρα βασσάρας

Structure: βασσαρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: = a)lw/phc

Sense

  1. a fox
  2. a Thracian bacchanal

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βασσάρα βασσάρᾱ βασσάραι
Genitive βασσάρᾱς βασσάραιν βασσαρῶν
Dative βασσάρᾱͅ βασσάραιν βασσάραις
Accusative βασσάρᾱν βασσάρᾱ βασσάρᾱς
Vocative βασσάρᾱ βασσάρᾱ 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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