ἀβασανίστως
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀβασάνιστος (abasánistos, “not tortured; unexamined”) (itself from ἀ- (a-) + βασανίζω (basanízō, “to examine; to torture”) + -τος (-tos)) + -ως (-ōs)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ba.sa.nís.tɔːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.ba.saˈnis.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.βa.saˈnis.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.va.saˈnis.tos/
- (15th 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
- ἀβασανίστως in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
- 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.