βάσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (English come). Synchronically analyzable as βαίνω (baínō, “I go”) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bá.sis/ → /ˈβa.sis/ → /ˈva.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bá.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈba.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.sis/

Noun

βᾰ́σῐς • (básis) f (genitive βᾰ́σεως); 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

Third declension of ἡ βᾰ́σῐς; τῆς βᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾰ́σῐς hē básis	τὼ βᾰ́σει tṑ básei	αἱ βᾰ́σεις hai báseis
Genitive	τῆς βᾰ́σεως tês báseōs	τοῖν βᾰσέοιν toîn baséoin	τῶν βᾰ́σεων tôn báseōn
Dative	τῇ βᾰ́σει têi básei	τοῖν βᾰσέοιν toîn baséoin	ταῖς βᾰ́σεσῐ / βᾰ́σεσῐν taîs básesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν βᾰ́σῐν tḕn básin	τὼ βᾰ́σει tṑ básei	τᾱ̀ς βᾰ́σεις tā̀s báseis
Vocative	βᾰ́σῐ bási	βᾰ́σει básei	βᾰ́σεις báseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀκρόβασις (akróbasis)
• ἀμφιβασις (amphibasis)
• ἀνάβασις (anábasis)
• ἀντίβασις (antíbasis)
• ἀπόβασις (apóbasis)
• βάσιμος (básimos)
• διάβασις (diábasis)
• εἴσβασις (eísbasis)
• ἔκβασις (ékbasis)
• ἔμβασις (émbasis)
• ἐπίβασις (epíbasis)
• κατάβασις (katábasis)
• μετάβασις (metábasis)
• παράβασις (parábasis)
• περίβασις (períbasis)
• πρόβασις (próbasis)
• πρόσβασις (prósbasis)
• σύμβασις (súmbasis)
• ὑπέρβασις (hupérbasis)
• ὑπόβασις (hupóbasis)

 

Descendants

• Greek: βάση (vási)
• → Hebrew: בָּסִיס (basís)
• → Latin: basis
  • Asturian: base
  • Catalan: base
  • French: base
    • → Czech: báze
    • → Danish: base
      • → Icelandic: basi
    • → Dutch: base
    • → German: Base
    • → English: base
    • → Esperanto: bazo
    • → Macedonian: база (baza)
    • → Norwegian: base
    • → Polish: baza
    • → Romanian: bază
    • → Russian: ба́за (báza)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: báza, ба́за
    • → Slovene: bāza
    • → Turkish: baz
    • → Ukrainian: ба́за (báza)
  • Galician: base
  • Italian: base
  • Portuguese: base
  • Spanish: base
  • → Danish: basis
  • → Dutch: basis
  • → English: basis
  • → Finnish: basis
  • → German: Basis
  • → Norwegian: basis
  • → Russian: ба́зис (bázis)

Further reading

• “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 (2006–2024)
• “βάσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G939 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.
  • 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.