βιαστής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βιάζομαι (biázomai, “to inflict violence”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs, agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /βi.asˈtis/ → /vi.asˈtis/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bi.asˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βi.asˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vi.asˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vi.asˈtis/

Noun

βιαστής • (biastḗs) m (genitive βιαστοῦ); first declension

1. (Koine) violent person

Declension

First declension of ὁ βιαστής; τοῦ βιαστοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βιαστής ho biastḗs	τὼ βιαστᾱ́ tṑ biastā́	οἱ βιασταί hoi biastaí
Genitive	τοῦ βιαστοῦ toû biastoû	τοῖν βιασταῖν toîn biastaîn	τῶν βιαστῶν tôn biastôn
Dative	τῷ βιαστῇ tôi biastêi	τοῖν βιασταῖν toîn biastaîn	τοῖς βιασταῖς toîs biastaîs
Accusative	τὸν βιαστήν tòn biastḗn	τὼ βιαστᾱ́ tṑ biastā́	τοὺς βιαστᾱ́ς toùs biastā́s
Vocative	βιαστᾰ́ biastá	βιαστᾱ́ biastā́	βιασταί biastaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

• 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 11:12:

  ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν ἡμερῶν Ἰωάννου τοῦ βαπτιστοῦ ἕως ἄρτι ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν βιάζεται, καὶ βιασταὶ ἁρπάζουσιν αὐτήν.

  apò dè tôn hēmerôn Iōánnou toû baptistoû héōs árti hē basileía tôn ouranôn biázetai, kaì biastaì harpázousin autḗn.

  • Translation by KJV

    And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

Derived terms

• βιαστικός (biastikós)

Related terms

• βιᾱτᾱ́ς (biātā́s)
• βιαστός (biastós)

Descendants

• Greek: βιαστής (viastís)

Further reading

• βιαστής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βιαστής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “βιαστής”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “βιαστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G973 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek βιαστής (biastḗs). By surface analysis, βιάζω (viázo, “to rape”) +‎ -στής (-stís, “-ist, -er”).

Noun

βιαστής • (viastís) m (plural βιαστές)

1. a rapist

Declension

Declension of βιαστής

	singular	plural
nominative	βιαστής (viastís)	βιαστές (viastés)
genitive	βιαστή (viastí)	βιαστών (viastón)
accusative	βιαστή (viastí)	βιαστές (viastés)
vocative	βιαστή (viastí)	βιαστές (viastés)

Related terms

• βιάζω (viázo, “to rape, to hurry”)
• βιασμός m (viasmós, “rape”)