# βαδίζω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

βάδην (bádēn), from βαίνω (baínō), with the suffix -ίζω (-ízō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ba.díz.dɔː/ → /βaˈði.zo/ → /vaˈði.zo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ba.díz.dɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /baˈdi.zo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /βaˈði.zo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /vaˈði.zo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /vaˈði.zo/

### Verb

βᾰδῐ́ζω • (bădĭ́zō)
* (intransitive) to go, to go about
** travel by foot
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Hymn to Hermes 210:ἐπιστροφάδην δ' ἐβάδιζενepistrophádēn d’ ebádizenhe was walking from side to side.
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against Callimachus 18.5:μετ' αὐτοῦ βαδίζωνmet’ autoû badízōnwalking with him
*** 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Fragment 43:ὁ δ' ἠλίθιος ὥσπερ πρόβατον βῆ βῆ λέγων βαδίζειho d’ ēlíthios hṓsper próbaton bê bê légōn badízeiAnd the fool goes around like a sheep saying "baa, baa".
*** 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis, Fragment :τὸ βαδίζειν ἀρρύθμως ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖςtò badízein arrhúthmōs en taîs hodoîsto walk unrhythmically in the streets.
*** 200 CE – 300 CE, Aristides Quintilianus, On Music :εὐρύθμως βαδίζεινeurúthmōs badízeinto walk rythmically.
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Aegineticus :τετρωμένον ... καὶ βαδίζειν οὐ δυνάμενονtetrōménon ... kaì badízein ou dunámenoninjured and unable to walk.
*** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics :ἐπὶ τῶν τεττάρων ποδῶν βαδίζειν ἐπεχείρησενepì tôn tettárōn podôn badízein epekheírēsen
*** 40 CE – 115 CE, Dio Chrysostom, Discourses 10.8:ἆρα οὐχ ... ἀνυπόδητος βαδίσεις;âra oukh ... anupódētos badíseis?
*** (also in the mediopassive)
**** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 190d:καὶ βαδιοῦνται ὀρθοὶ ἐπὶ δυοῖν σκελοῖν.kaì badioûntai orthoì epì duoîn skeloîn.and they shall walk upright on two legs.
*** (of an army) March
**** Anonymous, Hellenica Oxyrhynchia 11.6
**** 100 CE – 200 CE, Aelianus Tacticus, On Tactical Arrays of the Greeks 36.4
**** 37 CE – 100 CE, Josephus, Against Apion 2.24
*** (in opposition to τρέχω and πλέω)
**** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 468a:καθῆσθαι καὶ βαδίζειν καὶ τρέχειν καὶ πλεῖνkathêsthai kaì badízein kaì trékhein kaì pleînsitting, walking, running, sailing
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.10:ὥσπερ τὸ βαδίζειν καὶ τρέχεινhṓsper tò badízein kaì trékheinlike walking and running

#### Derived terms

* βάδισμα (bádisma)

#### Related terms

* βαίνω (baínō)

#### Descendants

* Greek: βαδίζω (vadízo)

### Further reading

* “βαδίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “βαδίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* βαδίζω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* βαδίζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

## Greek
### Etymology

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek βαδίζω (badízō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaˈði.zo/
* Hyphenation: βα‧δί‧ζω

### Verb

βαδίζω • (vadízo) (past βάδισα, passive —)
* to walk

#### Synonyms

* περπατώ (perpató)

#### Related terms

* βάδην (vádin)
* βάδιση f (vádisi)
* βάδισμα n (vádisma)
* βαδιστής m (vadistís)
* θεοβάδιστος (theovádistos)
* πλαγιοβάδιση f (plagiovádisi)
* προβάδισμα n (provádisma)
* συμβαδίζω (symvadízo)

### Further reading

* βαδίζω, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language