βασανίτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βάσανος (básanos) + -ίτης (-ítēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ba.sa.ní.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ba.saˈni.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βa.saˈni.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /va.saˈni.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /va.saˈni.tis/
Noun
βᾰσᾰνίτης • (băsănítēs) m (genitive βᾰσᾰνίτου); first declension
- synonym of βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ βᾰσᾰνίτης ho băsănítēs |
τὼ βᾰσᾰνίτᾱ tṑ băsănítā |
οἱ βᾰσᾰνίται hoi băsănítai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βᾰσᾰνίτου toû băsănítou |
τοῖν βᾰσᾰνίταιν toîn băsănítain |
τῶν βᾰσᾰνιτῶν tôn băsănitôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βᾰσᾰνίτῃ tōî băsănítēi |
τοῖν βᾰσᾰνίταιν toîn băsănítain |
τοῖς βᾰσᾰνίταις toîs băsănítais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν βᾰσᾰνίτην tòn băsănítēn |
τὼ βᾰσᾰνίτᾱ tṑ băsănítā |
τοὺς βᾰσᾰνίτᾱς toùs băsănítās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βᾰσᾰνίτᾰ băsănítă |
βᾰσᾰνίτᾱ băsănítā |
βᾰσᾰνίται băsănítai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- Latin: basanitēs, basaltēs
- → Basque: basalto
- → Catalan: basalt (learned)
- → Dutch: basalt
- → Indonesian: basal
- → English: basalt, basanite
- → Faroese: basalt
- → French: basalte (learned)
- → Galician: basalto (learned)
- → German: Basalt
- → Irish: basalt
- → Italian: basalto (learned)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: basalt
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: basalt
- → Portuguese: basalto (learned)
- → Russian: база́льт (bazálʹt), база́льтъ (bazálʹt) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- → Spanish: basalto (learned)
- → Ukrainian: база́льт (bazálʹt)
Further reading
- βασανίτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- βασανίτης, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “βασανίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press