βιβλίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Attic corruption, possibly by assimilation, of Ancient Greek βυβλίον (bublíon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bi.blí.on/ → /βiˈβli.on/ → /viˈvli.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bi.blí.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /biˈbli.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βiˈβli.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /viˈvli.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /viˈvli.on/

Noun

βῐβλῐ́ον • (biblíon) n (genitive βῐβλῐ́ου); second declension

1. Strip of papyrus
2. Small book, tablet, letter
3. Any book or writing

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ βῐβλῐ́ον; τοῦ βῐβλῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βῐβλῐ́ον tò biblíon	τὼ βῐβλῐ́ω tṑ biblíō	τᾰ̀ βῐβλῐ́ᾰ tà biblía
Genitive	τοῦ βῐβλῐ́ου toû biblíou	τοῖν βῐβλῐ́οιν toîn biblíoin	τῶν βῐβλῐ́ων tôn biblíōn
Dative	τῷ βῐβλῐ́ῳ tôi biblíōi	τοῖν βῐβλῐ́οιν toîn biblíoin	τοῖς βῐβλῐ́οις toîs biblíois
Accusative	τὸ βῐβλῐ́ον tò biblíon	τὼ βῐβλῐ́ω tṑ biblíō	τᾰ̀ βῐβλῐ́ᾰ tà biblía
Vocative	βῐβλῐ́ον biblíon	βῐβλῐ́ω biblíō	βῐβλῐ́ᾰ biblía
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βιβλιογραφία (bibliographía)
• βῐβλῐογρᾰ́φος (bibliográphos)
• βῐβλῐοκᾰ́πηλος (bibliokápēlos)
• βῐβλῐοπώλης (bibliopṓlēs)
• βῐβλῐοφῠ́λᾰξ (bibliophúlax)

 

Descendants

• Greek: βιβλίο (vivlío)
• Mariupol Greek: вивли́о (vivlío)
• → English: biblio-
• → Latin: Biblia, biblia (via plural)

Further reading

• “βιβλίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βιβλίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βιβλίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• βιβλίον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G975 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • book idem, page 89.