Ancient Greek

Noun

βάσις • ‎(básis) f ‎(genitive βάσεως); third declension

1. step
2. rhythm
3. foot
4. foundation, base

   τρία Μύρωνος ἔργα κολοσσικὰ ἱδρυμένα ἐπὶ μιᾶς βάσεως (Strabo Geog 14.1.14)

5. (geometry) one of the three sides of a triangle
6. fixedness

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: Basis
• Greek: βάση ‎(vási)
• English: basis
• Latin: basis
• Russian: база ‎(baza), базис ‎(bazis)

References

• βάσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• βάσις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G939”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, 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.