The corpus record

βᾰσῐλ-ίζω

basilizo

to be of the kingʼs party

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Where it lives

Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

to be of the kingʼs party, affect, assume the state of a king

to be of the kingʼs party, Plu. Flam. 16: also, c. acc., ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ βασιλίζων τὸν τόπον εἰς ὀνόματι (sic) Μωυσ[ῆ] Stud.Pont. 3 No.10g (Amisus):—Med., affect, assume the state of a king, App. BC 3.18; so in Act., J. AJ 1.10.4.

In the wild

βασίλισσαν · basilissan Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1636)
βασιλίσσῃ · basilissēi Septuaginta, Jeremias 30
βασίλισσαν · basilissan Xenophon, Economics 9.15 (DIORISIS sentence 481)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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