βάπτω,
future βάψω (ἐμ-) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
aorist ἔβαψα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—
middle,
future βάψομαι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
aorist ἐβαψάμην [
Refs 4th c.BC+]:—
passive,
future βᾰφήσομαι [
LXX+2nd c.AD+]:
aorist ἐβάφθην [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; in
Attic dialect generally ἐβάφην [ᾰ] [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
perfect βέβαμμαι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
I)
transitive,
dip, ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀνὴρ χαλκεὺς πέλεκυν. εἰν ὕδατι ψυχρῷ βάπτῃ (so as to temper the red-hot steel) [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰς μέλι, εἰς κηρόν, [
Refs 4th c.BC+] —
passive, βαπτόμενος σίδηρος iron
in process of being tempered, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; and of coral,
become hard, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
I.b) of slaughter in Trag, ἐν σφαγαῖσι βάψασα ξίφος [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; in later Prose, εἰς τὰ πλευρὰ β. τὴν αἰχμήν [
LXX+1st c.BC+]
I.c) also,
dip in poison, ἔβαψεν ἰούς [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.2)
dye, ἔβαψεν. ξίφος the sword
dyed [the robe]
red, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; β. τὰ κάλλη
dye the beautiful cloths, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
absolutely in
middle,
dye the hair, [
Refs 4th c.BC+];
glaze earthen vessels, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of
gilding and
silvering, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
dye one in the [red] dye of Sardes, i. e. give him a bloody coxcomb, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; but βέβαπται β. Κυζικηνικόν
he has been dyed in the dye of Cyzicus, i. e. is an arrant coward, [
Refs]
I.3)
draw water
by dipping a vessel, ἀνθ᾽ ὕδατος τᾷ κάλπιδι κηρία βάψαι [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἀρύταιναν. ἐκ μέσου βάψασα τοῦ λέβητος ζέοντος ὕδατος
draw water
by dipping the bucket, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; βάψασα ποντίας ἁλός (i.e. τὸ τεῦχος)
having dipped it
so as to draw water from the sea, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.4)
baptize, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II)
intransitive, ναῦς ἔβαψεν the ship
dipped, sank, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. εἰς ψυχρὸν [αἱ ἐγχέλυς] [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; εἰ δ᾽ ὁ μὲν (i.e. ἠέλιος) ἀνέφελος βάπτοι ῥόου ἑσπερίοιο [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
dipping into, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—also
middle, ποταμοῖο ἐβάψατο [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2) βάψας (i.e. τὴν κώπην) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. O Norse
kuefia 'dip'.)