βαδίζω

βάδην (bádēn), from βαίνω (baínō), with the suffix -ίζω (-ízō).

βᾰδῐ́ζω • (bădĭ́zō)

1. (intransitive) to go, to go about
   1. travel by foot
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Hymn to Hermes 210:

        ἐπιστροφάδην δ' ἐβάδιζεν

        epistrophádēn d’ ebádizen

        he was walking from side to side.

      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against Callimachus 18.5:

        μετ' αὐτοῦ βαδίζων

        met’ autoû badízōn

        walking with him

      • 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Fragment 43:

        ὁ δ' ἠλίθιος ὥσπερ πρόβατον βῆ βῆ λέγων βαδίζει

        ho d’ ēlíthios hṓsper próbaton bê bê légōn badízei

        And the fool goes around like a sheep saying "baa, baa".

      • 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis, Fragment:

        τὸ βαδίζειν ἀρρύθμως ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς

        tò badízein arrhúthmōs en taîs hodoîs

        to walk unrhythmically in the streets.

      • 200 CE – 300 CE, Aristides Quintilianus, On Music:

        εὐρύθμως βαδίζειν

        eurúthmōs badízein

        to walk rythmically.

      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Aegineticus:

        τετρωμένον ... καὶ βαδίζειν οὐ δυνάμενον

        tetrōménon ... kaì badízein ou dunámenon

        injured and unable to walk.

      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics:

        ἐπὶ τῶν τεττάρων ποδῶν βαδίζειν ἐπεχείρησεν

        epì tôn tettárōn podôn badízein epekheírēsen

        he attempted to walk on four feet

      • 40 CE – 115 CE, Dio Chrysostom, Discourses 10.8:

        ἆρα οὐχ ... ἀνυπόδητος βαδίσεις;

        âra oukh ... anupódētos badíseis?

        will you not walk barefoot?

      1. (also in the mediopassive)
         • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 190d:

           καὶ βαδιοῦνται ὀρθοὶ ἐπὶ δυοῖν σκελοῖν.

           kaì badioûntai orthoì epì duoîn skeloîn.

           and they shall walk upright on two legs.

      2. (of an army) March
         • Anonymous, Hellenica Oxyrhynchia 11.6
         • 100 CE – 200 CE, Aelianus Tacticus, On Tactical Arrays of the Greeks 36.4
         • 37 CE – 100 CE, Josephus, Against Apion 2.24
      3. (in opposition to τρέχω and πλέω)
         • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 468a:

           καθῆσθαι καὶ βαδίζειν καὶ τρέχειν καὶ πλεῖν

           kathêsthai kaì badízein kaì trékhein kaì pleîn

           sitting, walking, running, sailing

         • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.10:

           ὥσπερ τὸ βαδίζειν καὶ τρέχειν

           hṓsper tò badízein kaì trékhein

           like walking and running

• Greek: βαδίζω (vadízo)

• “βαδίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βαδίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βαδίζω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• βαδίζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek βαδίζω (badízō).

• IPA^(key): /vaˈði.zo/
• Hyphenation: βα‧δί‧ζω

βαδίζω • (vadízo) (past βάδισα, passive —)

1. to walk

• περπατώ (perpató)

• βαδίζω, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language