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βαίνω (bainō) to go ^G:V

βαίνω

(infinitive βαίμεναι [Refs 5th c.AD+], future βήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+], Doric dialect βᾱσεῦμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: perfect βέβηκα [Refs 8th c.BC+], Doric dialect βέβᾱκα [Refs 8th c.BC+], contraction βεβᾶσι [Refs 4th c.BC+]; subjunctive βεβῶσι (ἐμ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive βεβάμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle βεβαώς, -αυῖα [Refs 8th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐβεβήκειν [Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect βεβήκειν [Refs]; syncopated. 3rd.pers. plural βέβᾰσαν [Refs]: aorist 2 ἔβην [Refs 8th c.BC+], Doric dialect ἔβᾱν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular βῆ [Refs 8th c.BC+], 3rd.pers. plural ἔβαν [Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect βάν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; imperative βῆθι, Doric dialect βᾶθι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; βᾱ in compounds ἔμβα, κατάβα, etc., 2nd pers. plural βᾶτε [Refs 4th c.BC+]; subjunctive βῶ, Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular βήῃ (ὑπερ-) [Refs 8th c.BC+]; optative βαίη; infinitive βῆναι (Attic dialect Prose only in compounds), Epic dialect βήμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+], Doric dialect βᾶμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle βάς βᾶσα βάν, Doric dialect plural ἐκ-βῶντας [Refs 5th c.BC+] — middle, Epic dialect aorist 1 ἐβήσετο (ἀπ-) [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, present (see. below[Refs 4th c.BC+]aorist ἀν-, παρ-, ξυν-εβάθην, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀνα-, παρα-, ξυμ-βέβᾰμαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]future παρα-βαθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]—For the active future and aorist 1, see infr. B; for present participle βιβάς, see at {βίβημι}.—In correct Attic dialect Prose the present βαίνω is almost the only tense in use; but in compds. Prose writers used all tenses freely.

__A in the above tenses,
__I intransitive, walk, step, properly of motion on foot, ποσὶ βήσετο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; but also of all motion on ground, the direction being commonly determined by a preposition:—the kind of motion is often marked by a participle, βῆ φεύγων, βῆ ἀΐξασα, [Refs 8th c.BC+]participle future, denoting purpose, βῆ ῥ᾽ Ἶσον.. ἐξεναρίξων he went to slay, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with neuter adjective as adverb, σαῦλα ποσὶν β. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἴσα or ὁμοίως β. τινί, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; march or dance, μετὰ ῥυθμοῦ, ἐν ῥυθμῷ, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently with infinitive in [Refs 8th c.BC+] set out to go, went his way, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; βῆ δὲ θέειν started to run, [Refs], etc.; βῆ δ᾽ ἐλάαν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ νηὸς ἔβαινεν was going on board ship, [Refs 8th c.BC+]were on board, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐφ᾽ ἵππων βάντες having mounted the chariot, [Refs]; ἐπὶ πώλου βεβῶσα mounted on.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; βαίνειν δι᾽ αἵματος wade in blood, [Refs]
__I.2 in perfect, stand or be in a place, χῶρος ἐν ᾧ βεβήκαμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; βεβηκὼς σφόδρα firmly poised (opposed to κρεμάμενος) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. μάχη steady fight, [Refs 1st c.AD+]: frequently almost, ={εἰμί} (sum), εὖ βεβηκώς on a good footing, well established, prosperous, [θεοὶ] εὖ βεβηκότας ὑπτίους κλίνουσ᾽ [Refs 7th c.BC+]; εὖ βίου βεβηκότα probably to be read instead of ἐν βίῳ βεβιωκότα [LXX+7th c.BC+]; οἱ ἐν τέλει ἐόντες, βεβῶτες, they who arein office, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦτον οὐχ ὁρῇς ὅκως βέβη-[κεν] ἀνδριάντ; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; βοῦς, κλεὶς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ βέβηκεν, see at {βοῦς} IV, κλείς [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2.b Geometry texts of figures, stand on a base, ἐπί τινος [Refs 4th c.BC+] “*Stereom.” 1.31; of an angle, stand on an arc, ἐπί τινος, πρός τινι, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__I.2.c βεβηκὼς ῥυθμός stately rhythm, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
__I.3 go away, depart, ἐν νηυσὶ φίλην ἐς πατρίδ᾽ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔβαν ἄγοντες, ἔβαν φέρουσαι, have gone and taken away, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; βέβηκα euphemistic for τέθνηκα, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of things, ἐννέα ἐνιαυτοὶ βεβάασι nine years have come and gone, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I.4 come, τίπτε βέβηκα; [Refs]; arrive, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.5 go on, advance, ἐς τόδε τόλμης, ἐς τοσοῦτον ἐλπίδων, [Refs]
__I.6 with participle as periphrastic for future, βαίνω καταγγέλλων [Refs]
__II with accusative, mount, [Refs 8th c.BC+] only in aorist middle βήσασθαι δίφρον [Refs 8th c.BC+]: in active (future participle middle βησόμενος [Refs 4th c.AD+], of the male, mount, cover, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —in passive, ἵπποι βαινόμεναι brood mares, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 with accusative cognate, β. Δωρίαν κέλευθον ὕμνων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔβα ῥόον went down stream, i.e. died, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.2.b metaphorically of metre, scan, [Refs 1st c.BC+]is scanned, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.3 χρέος ἔβα με debts came on me, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.4 poetical with accusative of the instrument of motion, βαίνειν πόδα [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.5 βαίνειν· φιλεῖν, κολακεύειν, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
__B Causal, in future βήσω, (ἐπι-) [Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist 1 ἔβησα—make to go, φῶτας βῆσεν ἀφ᾽ ἵππων he made them dismount, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀμφοτέρους ἐξ ἵππων βῆσε κακῶς he brought them down from the chariot in sorry plight,[Refs 5th c.BC+] —The simple Verb is uncommon in later Gr. (For βάμ-yω, cf. Latin venio, Sanskrit gamyáte; βάσκω corresponds to Sanskrit gácchati (g[uglide]ṃ-sk-); root g[uglide]em- in OHG. quëman 'come'; ἔβην, βήσομαι from root g[uglide]ā-, Sanskrit jigāti, aorist ágāt.)