βασάνους (basanous)

βασάνους is an Ancient Greek form of βάσανος, meaning “test, torture, trial”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 2.2: κακούργου δέ τινος ἐμμόνως ὑπομείναντος βασάνους, ὡς σφόδρα πονηρός εἶπεν ἅνθρωπος, εἰς μοχθηρὰ καὶ αἰσχρὰ πράγματα τὴν ὑπομονὴν καὶ καρτερίαν κατατιθέμενος.

All forms of βάσανος (declension 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.