Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /βastáz̚zo/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vastáz̚zo/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vastázo/

Verb

βαστάζω • ‎(bastázō)

1. to lift, lift up, raise
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.594
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.405
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 827
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1470
   1. (figuratively) to lift up, exalt, ennoble
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 12.19
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 3.8
2. to bear, carry
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1019
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1129
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1216
   • 500 BCE – 350 BCE, Hermippus, Collected Works 46.2
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 16.78
   1. to hold in one's hands
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 905
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 657
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1127
      • 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Letters 2.35
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1413.B.12
   2. to have in mind, consider, weigh, make proof of
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 888
      • 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 437
      • 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Dippers 6
3. to carry off, take away
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 20.15
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 32.15.4
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 1.19.9
   • 3rd century AD, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.59
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Lucius or The Ass 16
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 12.6
   • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.46.F
4. to handle, touch
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 35
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1105

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *bastō

References

• βαστάζω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βαστάζω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βαστάζω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «βαστάζω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βαστάζω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «βαστάζω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• βαστάζω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G941”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Verb

βαστάζω • ‎(vastázo) ‎(simple past βάσταξα or βάστηξα, passive form βαστάζομαι)

1. carry, support (bring something as a load)
2. (figuratively) bear, withstand (loss, etc)

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• βαστώ ‎(vastó)