βαθύς

Zero-grade of the root of βένθος (bénthos); this alternation suggests a Proto-Indo-European origin. Unrelated to βυσσός (bussós) and βυθός (buthós).

βᾰθῠ́ς • (bathús) m (feminine βᾰθεῖᾰ, neuter βᾰθῠ́); first/third declension

1. being a large vertical distance from: high, deep
2. thick
3. generally: strong, intense, full
4. profound
5. (of colour) deep
6. (time) twilight

• βάθος (báthos)

• → English: bathy-
• Greek: βαθύς (vathýs, “deep”)

• βαθύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βαθύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βαθύς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• βαθύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βαθύς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G901 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • deep idem, page 203.
  • profound idem, page 653.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βαθύς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 191

From Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús).

βαθύς • (vathýs) m (feminine βαθιά, neuter βαθύ)

1. deep (downward or sometimes inward)
2. (figuratively) deep, dark (of shades and colours)

   βαθύ μπλε ― vathý ble ― deep blue

3. (figuratively) profound, deep

• ρηχός (richós, “shallow”)

• βάθος n (váthos, “depth, bottom”)

• βαθύς in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.