βαστάζω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably Pre-Greek. Has been compared to βαίνω (baínō); Beekes finds this unconvincing.

Pronunciation

Verb

βαστάζω • (bastázō)

1. to lift, lift up, raise
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.594
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.405
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 827
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1470
   1. (figuratively) to lift up, exalt, ennoble
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 12.19
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 3.8
2. to bear, carry
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1019
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1129
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1216
   • 500 BCE – 350 BCE, Hermippus, Collected Works 46.2
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 16.78
   1. to hold in one's hands
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 905
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 657
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1127
      • 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Letters 2.35
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1413B.12
   2. to have in mind, consider, weigh, make proof of
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 888
      • 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 437
      • 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Dippers 6
3. to carry off, take away
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 20:15
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 32.15.4
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 1.19.9
   • 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.59
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Ass 16
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 12:6
   • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.46F
4. to handle, touch
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 35
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1105

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: βαστῶ (bastô)
  • Greek: βαστώ (vastó), βαστάω (vastáo)
• Greek: βαστάζω (vastázo)
• → Vulgar Latin: *bastō

References

• “βαστάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βαστάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βαστάζω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βαστάζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βαστάζω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βαστάζω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “βαστάζω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G941 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βαστάζω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 205

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈsta.zo/
• Hyphenation: βα‧στά‧ζω

Verb

βαστάζω • (vastázo) (past βάσταξα/βάστηξα, passive βαστάζομαι, p‑past βαστάχτηκα, ppp βασταγμένος)

1. to carry, support (bring something as a load)
2. (figuratively) to bear, withstand (loss, etc)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• βαστώ (vastó) (in sense: carry)