Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /βaθýs/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vaθýs/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vaθís/

Adjective

βαθύς • ‎(bathús) m ‎(feminine βαθεῖα, neuter βαθύ); first/third declension

1. being a large vertical distance from: high, deep
2. thick
3. generally: strong, intense, full
4. profound
5. (of colour) deep
6. (time) twilight

Inflection

Related terms

• βάθος ‎(báthos)
• βυσσός ‎(bussós)
• βυθός ‎(buthós)

Descendants

• English: bathy-
• Greek: βαθύς ‎(vathýs, “deep”)

βάθος n ‎(váthos, “depth”)

References

• βαθύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βαθύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βαθύς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• 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
• «βαθύς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βαθύς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G901”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • deep idem, page 203.
  • profound idem, page 653.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βαθύς ‎(bathús)

Adjective

βαθύς • ‎(vathýs) m ‎(feminine βαθιά, neuter βαθύ)

1. deep (downward or sometimes inward)
2. (figuratively) deep, dark (of shades and colours)

   βαθύ μπλε‎ ― vathý ble ― deep blue

3. (figuratively) profound, deep

Declension

Related terms

• βάθος n ‎(váthos, “depth, bottom”)

Antonyms

• ρηχός ‎(richós, “shallow”)