βήρυλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Indic forms like Pali veḷuriya or Prakrit 𑀯𑁂𑀭𑀼𑀮𑀺𑀅 (verulia), from Dravidian, probably named after Velur (modern day Belur) in southern India.

The variants βηρύλλιον (bērúllion) and βηρύλλιος (bērúllios) reflect the source veruḷiya more faithfully than βήρυλλος (bḗrullos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bɛ̌ː.ryl.los/ → /ˈβi.ryl.los/ → /ˈvi.ri.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bɛ̌ː.ryl.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbe̝.ryl.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβi.ryl.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ryl.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ri.los/

Noun

βήρυλλος • (bḗrullos) f (genitive βηρύλλου); second declension

1. beryl

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βήρυλλος; τοῦ βηρύλλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βήρυλλος ho bḗrullos	τὼ βηρύλλω tṑ bērúllō	οἱ βήρυλλοι hoi bḗrulloi
Genitive	τοῦ βηρύλλου toû bērúllou	τοῖν βηρύλλοιν toîn bērúlloin	τῶν βηρύλλων tôn bērúllōn
Dative	τῷ βηρύλλῳ tôi bērúllōi	τοῖν βηρύλλοιν toîn bērúlloin	τοῖς βηρύλλοις toîs bērúllois
Accusative	τὸν βήρυλλον tòn bḗrullon	τὼ βηρύλλω tṑ bērúllō	τοὺς βηρύλλους toùs bērúllous
Vocative	βήρυλλε bḗrulle	βηρύλλω bērúllō	βήρυλλοι bḗrulloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βηρύλλιον (bērúllion)
• βηρύλλιος (bērúllios)
• βηρυλλιολίθος (bērulliolíthos)

Descendants

• Greek: βήρυλλος (víryllos)
• → Amharic: ብርሌ (bərəlle)
• → Old Armenian: բիւրեղ (biwreł)
  • Armenian: բյուրեղ (byureġ)
• → Old Georgian: ბჳრილიონი (bwirilioni)
• → Ge'ez: ብርሌ (bərəlle), ቢረሌ (birälle), ብረሌ (bərälle)
• → Sebat Bet Gurage: ብርሌ (bərəlle)
• → Latin: bēryllus, bērillus, berullus (see there for further descendants)
• → Tigre: ብርሌ (bərəlle)
• → Tigrinya: ብርሌ (bərəlle)

Further reading

• “βήρυλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βήρυλλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βήρυλλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G969 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Franke, Otto (1893) “Beziehungen der Inder zum Westen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1], volume 47, page 600
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 106a
• “βήρυλλος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos, “beryl”).

Noun

βήρυλλος • (víryllos) f (uncountable)

1. beryl

Declension

Declension of βήρυλλος

	singular
nominative	βήρυλλος (víryllos)
genitive	βηρύλλου (virýllou)
accusative	βήρυλλο (víryllo)
vocative	βήρυλλε (vírylle)

Further reading

• βήρυλλος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el