βάσις

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, from the root *gʷem- (“step”). By surface analysis, βαίνω (baínō, “to walk, step”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs, nominal suffix).^[1]

βᾰ́σῐς • (bắsĭs) f (genitive βᾰ́σεως); third declension

stepping, step; (collective) steps
measured step or movement; rhythmical or metrical movement
1. (rhetoric) rhythmical close of a sentence; clause forming transition from protasis to apodosis
2. (prosody) metrical unit, monometer
foot, leg
base, pedestal; foundation, basement
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 14.1.14:
  τρία Μύρωνος ἔργα κολοσσικὰ ἱδρυμένα ἐπὶ μιᾶς βάσεως
  of these, three of colossal size, the work of Myron, stood upon one base
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(geometry) base of a solid or plane figure
position, fixedness
Antonym: φορᾱ́ (phorā́)
(astrology) horoscope
Synonym: ὡροσκόπος (hōroskópos)

Third declension of ἡ βᾰ́σῐς; τῆς βᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾰ́σῐς hē bắsĭs	τὼ βᾰ́σει tṑ bắsei	αἱ βᾰ́σεις hai bắseis
Genitive	τῆς βᾰ́σεως tês bắseōs	τοῖν βᾰσέοιν toîn băséoin	τῶν βᾰ́σεων tôn bắseōn
Dative	τῇ βᾰ́σει tēî bắsei	τοῖν βᾰσέοιν toîn băséoin	ταῖς βᾰ́σεσῐ / βᾰ́σεσῐν taîs bắsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν βᾰ́σῐν tḕn bắsĭn	τὼ βᾰ́σει tṑ bắsei	τᾱ̀ς βᾰ́σεις tā̀s bắseis
Vocative	βᾰ́σῐ bắsĭ	βᾰ́σει bắsei	βᾰ́σεις bắseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βαίνω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 192: “DER 1. βάσις”

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“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 (2006–2026)
“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.
- base idem, page 64.
- bottom idem, page 90.
- foot idem, page 333.
- foot-step idem, page 334.
- foundation idem, page 341.
- movement idem, page 545.
- pace idem, page 588.
- stand idem, page 810.
- step idem, page 815.
- stride idem, page 825.
- tramp idem, page 887.
- tread idem, page 891.
βάσις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011