βάσανος

From Egyptian bḫn (“a hard stone”),[1]

βάσᾰνος • (básanos) f (genitive βασάνου); second declension

1. gold touchstone (stone which is rubbed on gold to ascertain its authenticity by leaving a yellow streak)
2. (figuratively)
   1. test, trial (whether a thing is genuine or real)
   2. inquiry by torture

• βασανίτης (basanítēs)

• Greek: βάσανος (vásanos, “examination, probe”)
• Greek: βάσανο (vásano, “torture”)
  • βασανίζω (vasanízo, “to torture”)
  • βασανισμός (vasanismós, “torture (torturing), torment (tormenting)”)
  • βασανιστής n (vasanistís, “torturer, tormentor”)
  • βασανίστρια f (vasanístria, “torturer (female), tormentor (female)”)
  • βασανιστικός (vasanistikós, “brutal, agonising”)
  • βασανιστήριο n (vasanistírio, “torture”)

• “βάσανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βάσανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βάσανος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βάσανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βάσανος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • assay idem, page 45.
  • rack idem, page 668.
  • test idem, page 863.
  • torture idem, page 884.
  • touch-stone idem, page 884.

From Ancient Greek βάσανος (básanos, “gold touchstone”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvasanos/
• Hyphenation: βά‧σα‧νος

βάσανος • (vásanos) f (plural βάσανοι)

1. (formal) probe, investigation (careful and attentive examination)

   Πρέπει να περάσει βάσανο πριν δημοσιευτεί.

   Prépei na perásei vásano prin dimosiefteí.

   It has to go through an examination before it's published.

• (probe, investigation): εξέταση f (exétasi)

• βασανίζω (vasanízo, “to examine”)
• βάσανο n (vásano, “torture, torment”)