βαπτισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βαπτίζω (baptízō, “dip in liquid”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bap.tiz.mós/ → /βap.tizˈmos/ → /vap.tizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bap.tiz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bap.tizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βap.tizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vap.tizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vap.tizˈmos/

Noun

βᾰπτῐσμός • (baptismós) m (genitive βᾰπτῐσμοῦ); second declension

1. a dipping, a washing
2. baptism

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βᾰπτῐσμός; τοῦ βᾰπτῐσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βᾰπτῐσμός ho baptismós	τὼ βᾰπτῐσμώ tṑ baptismṓ	οἱ βᾰπτῐσμοί hoi baptismoí
Genitive	τοῦ βᾰπτῐσμοῦ toû baptismoû	τοῖν βᾰπτῐσμοῖν toîn baptismoîn	τῶν βᾰπτῐσμῶν tôn baptismôn
Dative	τῷ βᾰπτῐσμῷ tôi baptismôi	τοῖν βᾰπτῐσμοῖν toîn baptismoîn	τοῖς βᾰπτῐσμοῖς toîs baptismoîs
Accusative	τὸν βᾰπτῐσμόν tòn baptismón	τὼ βᾰπτῐσμώ tṑ baptismṓ	τοὺς βᾰπτῐσμούς toùs baptismoús
Vocative	βᾰπτῐσμέ baptismé	βᾰπτῐσμώ baptismṓ	βᾰπτῐσμοί baptismoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• βᾰ́πτῐσμᾰ (báptisma)

Descendants

• English: baptism

References

• “βαπτισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βαπτισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βαπτισμός 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
• βαπτισμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G909 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible