βασανίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βάσανος (básanos) +‎ -ίτης (-ítēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ba.sa.ní.tɛːs/ → /βa.saˈni.tis/ → /va.saˈni.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ba.sa.ní.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ba.saˈni.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βa.saˈni.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /va.saˈni.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /va.saˈni.tis/

Noun

βᾰσᾰνίτης • (basanítēs) m (genitive βᾰσᾰνίτου); first declension

1. Synonym of βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”)

Declension

First declension of ὁ βᾰσᾰνίτης; τοῦ βᾰσᾰνίτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βᾰσᾰνίτης ho basanítēs	τὼ βᾰσᾰνίτᾱ tṑ basanítā	οἱ βᾰσᾰνίται hoi basanítai
Genitive	τοῦ βᾰσᾰνίτου toû basanítou	τοῖν βᾰσᾰνίταιν toîn basanítain	τῶν βᾰσᾰνιτῶν tôn basanitôn
Dative	τῷ βᾰσᾰνίτῃ tôi basanítēi	τοῖν βᾰσᾰνίταιν toîn basanítain	τοῖς βᾰσᾰνίταις toîs basanítais
Accusative	τὸν βᾰσᾰνίτην tòn basanítēn	τὼ βᾰσᾰνίτᾱ tṑ basanítā	τοὺς βᾰσᾰνίτᾱς toùs basanítās
Vocative	βᾰσᾰνίτᾰ basaníta	βᾰσᾰνίτᾱ basanítā	βᾰσᾰνίται basanítai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Latin: basanitēs, basaltēs
  • → Basque: basalto
  • → Catalan: basalt (learned)
  • → Dutch: basalt
    • → Indonesian: basal
  • → English: basalt, basanite
  • → Faroese: basalt
  • → French: basalte (learned)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: بازالت (bazalt)
      • Turkish: bazalt
  • → Galician: basalto (learned)
  • → German: Basalt
  • → Irish: basalt
  • → Italian: basalto (learned)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: basalt
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: basalt
  • → Portuguese: basalto (learned)
  • → Russian: база́льт (bazálʹt), база́льтъ (bazálʹt) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Armenian: բազալտ (bazalt)
    • → Kazakh: базальт (bazalt)
  • → Spanish: basalto (learned)
  • → Ukrainian: база́льт (bazálʹt)

Further reading

• βασανίτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “βασανίτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “βασανίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press