βασιλεία
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Ancient Greek
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the stem of βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”) + -ίᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ba.si.lěː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ba.siˈli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βa.siˈli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /va.siˈli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /va.siˈli.a/
Noun
[edit]βᾰσῐλείᾱ • (basileíā) f (genitive βᾰσῐλείᾱς); first declension
- A kingdom, a dominion
- A hereditary monarchy
- The office of king
- (with passive meaning) being ruled by a king
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βᾰσῐλείᾱ hē basileíā |
τὼ βᾰσῐλείᾱ tṑ basileíā |
αἱ βᾰσῐλεῖαι hai basileîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βᾰσῐλείᾱς tês basileíās |
τοῖν βᾰσῐλείαιν toîn basileíain |
τῶν βᾰσῐλειῶν tôn basileiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βᾰσῐλείᾳ têi basileíāi |
τοῖν βᾰσῐλείαιν toîn basileíain |
ταῖς βᾰσῐλείαις taîs basileíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βᾰσῐλείᾱν tḕn basileíān |
τὼ βᾰσῐλείᾱ tṑ basileíā |
τᾱ̀ς βᾰσῐλείᾱς tā̀s basileíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰσῐλείᾱ basileíā |
βᾰσῐλείᾱ basileíā |
βᾰσῐλεῖαι basileîai | ||||||||||
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Adjective
[edit]βᾰσῐλείᾱ • (basileíā)
- inflection of βᾰσῐ́λειος (basíleios):
Further reading
[edit]- “βασιλεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βασιλεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βασιλεία 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
- βασιλεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G932 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.
Greek
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]βασιλεία • (vasileía) f (plural βασιλείες)
Declension
[edit]Declension of βασιλεία
Synonyms
[edit]- μοναρχία f (monarchía)
Derived terms
[edit]- συνταγματική βασιλεία f (syntagmatikí vasileía, “constitutional monarchy”)
Related terms
[edit]- αντιβασιλεία f (antivasileía, “regency”)
- Βασιλεία f (Vasileía, “Basel”) (city)
- βασίλειο n (vasíleio, “kingdom”)
- μεσοβασιλεία f (mesovasileía)
- and see: βασιλιάς m (vasiliás, “king”)
Further reading
[edit]- βασιλεία, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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