ΒΑ (BA)

ΒΑ is an Ancient Greek form of βαίνω, meaning “to step, go, walk”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 216 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Sophocles, Ichneutae 65: πόδα βά[σιν τε]ν

Aeschylus, Supplices 836: σοῦσθε σοῦσθʼ ἐπὶ βᾶ-

Aristotle, Metaphysics 7.17·2: … θετον οὕτως ὥστε ἓν εἶναι τὸ πᾶν, ἂν μὴ ὡς σωρὸς ἀλλʼ ὡς ἡ συλλαβή—ἡ δὲ συλλαβὴ οὐκ ἔστι τὰ στοιχεῖα, οὐδὲ τῷ βα ταὐτὸ τὸ β καὶ α, οὐδʼ ἡ σὰρξ πῦρ καὶ γῆ (διαλυθέντων γὰρ τὰ μὲν οὐκέτι ἔστιν, οἷον ἡ σὰρξ καὶ ἡ συλλαβή, τὰ …

All forms of βαίνω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.