Etymology

basilean

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Today it means: A royalist; a partisan of a king. Full definition →

Ancient Greek βασιλε(ύς)
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromβασιλε(ύς)“king”
  2. English todaybasilean

Ancient Greek βασιλε(ύς) (basile(ús), “king”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives and derived substantives); compare basileolatry

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekβασιλε(ύς) all →

basileolatry

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