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

Noun

βιβλίον • (biblíon) n (genitive βιβλίου); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ βιβλῐ́ον; τοῦ βιβλῐ́ου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βιβλῐ́ον	τὼ βιβλῐ́ω	τᾰ̀ βιβλῐ́ᾰ
Genitive	τοῦ βιβλῐ́ου	τοῖν βιβλῐ́οιν	τῶν βιβλῐ́ων
Dative	τῷ βιβλῐ́ῳ	τοῖν βιβλῐ́οιν	τοῖς βιβλῐ́οις
Accusative	τὸ βιβλῐ́ον	τὼ βιβλῐ́ω	τᾰ̀ βιβλῐ́ᾰ
Vocative	βιβλῐ́ον	βιβλῐ́ω	βιβλῐ́ᾰ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βιβλιοπώλης (bibliopṓlēs)

Descendants

• English: Bible, biblio-
• Greek: βιβλίο (vivlío), Βίβλος (Vívlos)
• Russian: библия (biblija)

References

• 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 (© 2006–2017)
• “G975”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • book idem, page 89.