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βαθμ-ός or βασμός , ὁ, (βαίνω)
A.step, threshold, LXX IKi.5.5, [S.]Fr.1127; degree on the dial, LXX 4 Ki.20.9 sq.; fifteen degrees of the zodiac, Vett.Val.31.2; interval in a musical scale, Iamb.VP26.120.
2. rung of a ladder, Luc.Trag.221.
3. base or plinth of a tower, GDI5524.10 (Cyzicus).
II. metaph., step, degree in rank (“οἱ β. κλίμακος προκοπὴν σημαίνουσι” Artem.2.42), 1 Ep.Ti.3.13, Procop.Arc.24, Lyd.Mag.2.8, al.; “οἱ τᾶς ἀξίας βάσμοι” IG12(2).243.16 (Mytil.); simply, degree, “τολμημάτων βαθμοί” J.BJ4.3.10; “ὥσπερ ἡδονῆς κλίμακα συμπηξάμενος ἔρως πρῶτον ἔχει β. ὄψεως” Luc.Am.53; step in an argument, Simp.in Cael.718.35; of a genealogy, ἀπωτέρω δυοῖν β. two steps farther back, i.e. farther back than one's grandfather, D.Chr.41.6.
III. tax paid on stairs, POxy.574 (ii A. D.): acc. to Phryn.296, Moer.97, βαθμός is Ion., βασμός Att., but βασμός occurs GDI5524.10 (Cyzic.), Jahresh.3.55 (Scepsis).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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