# βαστάζω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Probably Pre-Greek. Has been compared to βαίνω (baínō); Beekes finds this unconvincing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bas.táz.dɔː/ → /βasˈta.zo/ → /vasˈta.zo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /bas.táz.dɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /basˈta.zo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /βasˈta.zo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /vasˈta.zo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /vasˈta.zo/

### Verb

βαστάζω • (bastázō)
* to lift, lift up, raise
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.594:λᾶαν βαστάζοντα πελώριον ἀμφοτέρῃσιν.lâan bastázonta pelṓrion amphotérēisin.
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.405
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 827
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1470
** (figuratively) to lift up, exalt, ennoble
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 12.19
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 3.8
* to bear, carry
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1019
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1129
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1216
** 500 BCE – 350 BCE, Hermippus, Collected Works 46.2
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 16.78
** to hold in one's hands
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 905
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 657
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1127
*** 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Letters 2.35
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1413B.12
** to have in mind, consider, weigh, make proof of
*** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 888
*** 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 437
*** 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Dippers 6
* to carry off, take away
** 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 20:15
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 32.15.4
** 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 1.19.9
** 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.59
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Ass 16
** 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 12:6
** 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.46F
* to handle, touch
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 35
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1105

#### Derived terms

* βαστά (bastá)
* βασταγάριος (bastagários)
* βασταγή (bastagḗ)
* βαστάγιον (bastágion)
* βάσταγμα (bástagma)
* βάστακες (bástakes)
* βαστακτέον (bastaktéon)
* βαστακτής (bastaktḗs)
* βαστακτικός (bastaktikós)
* βαστακτός (bastaktós)
* βαστέρνιον (bastérnion)

#### Descendants

* Byzantine Greek: βαστῶ (bastô)
** Greek: βαστώ (vastó), βαστάω (vastáo)
* Greek: βαστάζω (vastázo)
* → Vulgar Latin: *bastō

### References

* “βαστάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “βαστάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “βαστάζω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* βαστάζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* βαστάζω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* βαστάζω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* “βαστάζω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G941 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βαστάζω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 205

## Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaˈsta.zo/
* Hyphenation: βα‧στά‧ζω

### Verb

βαστάζω • (vastázo) (past βάσταξα/βάστηξα, passive βαστάζομαι, p‑past βαστάχτηκα, ppp βασταγμένος)
* to carry, support (bring something as a load)
* (figuratively) to bear, withstand (loss, etc)

#### Synonyms

* βαστώ (vastó) (in sense: carry)