Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βασιληΐη ‎(basilēḯē) Ionic

Noun

βασιλείᾱ • ‎(basileíā) f ‎(genitive βασιλείᾱς); first declension

1. A kingdom, a dominion
2. A hereditary monarchy
3. The office of king
   1. (in Athens) the office of archon
4. (with passive meaning) being ruled by a king

Inflection

References

• βασιλεία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βασιλεία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «βασιλεία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• «βασιλεία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G932”, 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.
  • kingship idem, page 470.
  • lordship idem, page 500.
  • rule idem, page 725.

Greek

Noun

βασιλεία • ‎(vasileía) f ‎(plural βασιλείες)

1. monarchy, kingship

Declension

Synonyms

• μοναρχία f ‎(monarchía)

Derived terms

• συνταγματική βασιλεία f ‎(syntagmatikí vasileía, “constitutional monarchy”)