# βασιλεύω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* βασιλέω (basiléō)

### Etymology

From βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ba.si.lěu̯.ɔː/ → /βa.siˈle.βo/ → /va.siˈle.vo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ba.si.lěu̯.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ba.siˈle.wo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /βa.siˈle.βo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /va.siˈle.vo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /va.siˈle.vo/

### Verb

βᾰσῐλεύω • (basileúō)
* to be king, to rule, reign as king
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.203
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.616
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.47
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.52
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.425
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.285
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.2
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.401
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.59
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Maccabees 1.16
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 576D–E
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1284B.39
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 680E
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.106
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 19
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Sulla 12
** (ἡ βασιλεύσουσα πόλις (hē basileúsousa pólis)) the imperial city, Rome
*** 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.98C
** to enjoy as absolute master
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 21.60
** (absolute) to live right royally
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.101D
*** 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 4:8
** (causal) to appoint as king
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Judges 9.6
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, 1 Samuel 8.22
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, 1 Samuel 12.1

#### Inflection
### References

* “βασιλεύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “βασιλεύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “βασιλεύω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* βασιλεύω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* βασιλεύω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* βασιλεύω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
* “βασιλεύω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G936 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek βασιλεύω (basileúō). Sense 'sunset' since mediaeval times.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /va.siˈle.vo/
* Hyphenation: βα‧σι‧λεύ‧ω

### Verb

βασιλεύω • (vasilévo) (past βασίλεψα, passive —)
* (monarchy) to reign, rule (also figurative)
* (astronomy) to set, go down, wester (sun, stars, etc)
** (figuratively) to decline

#### Synonyms

* (sunset, decline): δύω (dýo)

#### Derived terms

* βασιλευομένη δημοκρατία (vasilevoméni dimokratía, “crowned republic”)

#### Related terms

* αβασίλευτος (avasíleftos, “not governed by a monarch”)
* βασίλεμα n (vasílema, “sunset”)
* βασιλεμένος (vasileménos, “sunsetted”, passive perfect participle)
* βασιλευόμενος m (vasilevómenos, “who is reigned”, passive present participle), βασιλευομένη f, βασιλευόμενο(ν) (formal)
* βασιλεύων m (vasilévon, “reigning”, active present participle), βασιλεύουσα f (vasilévousa), βασιλεύον (formal)
* συμβασιλεύω (symvasilévo, “reign together”)
* and see: βασιλιάς m (vasiliás, “king”)