Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βασιλέω ‎(basiléō)

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

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

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

Verb

βασιλεύω • ‎(basileúō)

1. to be king, to rule, reign as king
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.203
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.616
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.47
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.52
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.425
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.285
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.2
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.401
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.59
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Maccabees 1.16
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 576.D–E
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1284.B.39
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 680.E
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.106
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 19
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Sulla 12
   1. (ἡ βασιλεύσουσα πόλις ‎(hē basileúsousa pólis)) the imperial city, Rome
      • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.98.C
   2. to enjoy as absolute master
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 21.60
   3. (absolute) to live right royally
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.101.D
      • New Testament, First Epistle to the Corinthians 4.8
   4. (causal) to appoint as king
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Judges 9.6
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, 1 Samuel 8.22
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, 1 Samuel 12.1

Inflection

References

• βασιλεύω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βασιλεύω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βασιλεύω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «βασιλεύω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βασιλεύω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «βασιλεύω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• βασιλεύω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G936”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Verb

βασιλεύω • ‎(vasilévo) ‎(simple past βασίλεψα)

1. (monarchy) reign, rule
2. (astronomy) set, go down, wester (sun, stars, etc)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (astronomy): δύω ‎(dýo)