βάσανος

Of Egyptian origin.

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

• Greek: βάσανος (vásanos, “examination, probe”)
• Greek: βάσανο (vásano, “torture”)
  • βασανίζω (vasanízo, “to torture”)
  • βασανιστής n (vasanistís, “torturer, tormentor”)
  • βασανίστρια f (vasanístria, “tormentor”)
  • 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 (2006–2019)
• 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.

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

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