ἀβασανίστως

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀβασάνιστος (abasánistos, “not tortured; unexamined”) (itself from ἀ- (a-) +‎ βασανίζω (basanízō, “to examine; to torture”) +‎ -τος (-tos)) + -ως (-ōs).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ba.sa.nís.tɔːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ba.saˈnis.tos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.βa.saˈnis.tos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.va.saˈnis.tos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.va.saˈnis.tos/

Adverb

ἀβᾰσᾰνίστως • (abasanístōs)

without pain
without due examination
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20

Further reading

ἀβασανίστως in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀβασάνιστος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“ἀβασανίστως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- unquestioningly idem, page 928.

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