Ancient Greek

Noun

βᾰρῠ́της • ‎(barútēs) f ‎(genitive βᾰρῠ́τητος); third declension

1. weight, heaviness
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.62.2
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.51.9
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 5.3.1
   1. heaviness of limb
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.978c
   2. (of digestion)
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 128b
2. (of men) troublesomeness, importunity
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 12.31
   1. disagreeableness
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.35
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Coriolanus 30
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cato the Younger 57.1
3. arrogance
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.17
   1. gravity
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Fab.I
4. (of sound) depth, low pitch
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 5.1.778a19
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Soul Β.11.2.422b30
   • 400 BCE – 250 BCE, Aristoxenus, Harm. p.3M.
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 11
   1. (grammar) the grave accent
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1456b33
      1. absence of accent
         • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 38.15
5. (rhetoric) adoption of an injured tone
   • Aps. p.331.H.

Declension

Antonyms

• (depth, low pitch): ὀξῠ́της ‎(oxútēs)
• (the grave accent): ὀξῠ́της ‎(oxútēs)

Descendants

• Greek: βαρύτητα ‎(varýtita)

References

• βαρύτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βαρύτης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «βαρύτης» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βαρύτης» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • aggravation idem, page 18.
  • deepness idem, page 203.
  • dinginess idem, page 225.
  • disagreeableness idem, page 227.
  • heaviness idem, page 393.
  • irksomeness idem, page 459.
  • laboriousness idem, page 472.
  • massiveness idem, page 516.
  • objectionableness idem, page 565.
  • obnoxiousness idem, page 566.
  • odiousness idem, page 569.
  • offensiveness idem, page 570.
  • onerousness idem, page 574.
  • oppressiveness idem, page 577.
  • ponderosity idem, page 626.
  • rankness idem, page 671.
  • tediousness idem, page 859.
  • tiresomeness idem, page 877.
  • toilsomeness idem, page 879.
  • troublesomeness idem, page 897.
  • uncomfortableness idem, page 910.
  • unpleasantness idem, page 927.
  • unsatisfactoriness idem, page 931.
  • vexatiousness idem, page 950.
  • wearisomeness idem, page 970.
  • weight idem, page 972.