βάσις
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, from the root *gʷem- (“step”). By surface analysis, βαίνω (baínō, “to walk, step”) + -σῐς (-sis, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bá.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈba.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβa.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈva.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈva.sis/
Noun
βᾰ́σῐς • (básis) f (genitive βᾰ́σεως); third declension
- stepping, step; (collective) steps
- measured step or movement; rhythmical or metrical movement
- foot, leg
- base, pedestal; foundation, basement
- (geometry) base of a solid or plane figure
- position, fixedness
- Antonym: φορᾱ́ (phorā́)
- (astrology) horoscope
- Synonym: ὡροσκόπος (hōroskópos)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βᾰ́σῐς hē básis |
τὼ βᾰ́σει tṑ básei |
αἱ βᾰ́σεις hai báseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βᾰ́σεως tês báseōs |
τοῖν βᾰσέοιν toîn baséoin |
τῶν βᾰ́σεων tôn báseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βᾰ́σει têi básei |
τοῖν βᾰσέοιν toîn baséoin |
ταῖς βᾰ́σεσῐ / βᾰ́σεσῐν taîs básesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βᾰ́σῐν tḕn básin |
τὼ βᾰ́σει tṑ básei |
τᾱ̀ς βᾰ́σεις tā̀s báseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰ́σῐ bási |
βᾰ́σει básei |
βᾰ́σεις báseis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ᾰ̓κρόβᾰσῐς (akróbasis)
- ᾰ̓μφῐ́βᾰσῐς (amphíbasis)
- ᾰ̓νάβᾰσῐς (anábasis)
- ᾰ̓ντῐ́βᾰσῐς (antíbasis)
- ᾰ̓πόβᾰσῐς (apóbasis)
- βᾰσείδῐον (baseídion)
- δῐᾰ́βᾰσῐς (diábasis)
- εἴσβᾰσῐς (eísbasis)
- ἔκβᾰσῐς (ékbasis)
- ἔμβᾰσῐς (émbasis)
- ἐπῐ́βᾰσῐς (epíbasis)
- κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐς (katábasis)
- λεοντόβᾰσῐς (leontóbasis)
- λῐθόβᾰσῐς (lithóbasis)
- μετᾰ́βᾰσῐς (metábasis)
- πᾰρᾰ́βᾰσῐς (parábasis)
- περῐ́βᾰσῐς (períbasis)
- πρόβᾰσῐς (próbasis)
- πρόσβᾰσῐς (prósbasis)
- σῠ́μβᾰσῐς (súmbasis)
- ῠ̔πέρβᾰσῐς (hupérbasis)
- ῠ̔πόβᾰσῐς (hupóbasis)
Descendants
Descendants of βᾰ́σῐς in other languages
References
- “βάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading
- “βάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βάσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- βάσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “βάσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G939 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
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- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις
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