βιβλίον
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attic corruption, possibly by assimilation, of Ancient Greek βυβλίον (bublíon).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bi.blí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /biˈbli.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βiˈβli.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /viˈvli.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /viˈvli.on/
Noun
[edit]βῐβλῐ́ον • (bĭblĭ́on) n (genitive βῐβλῐ́ου); second declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βῐβλῐ́ον tò bĭblĭ́on |
τὼ βῐβλῐ́ω tṑ bĭblĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ βῐβλῐ́ᾰ tằ bĭblĭ́ă | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βῐβλῐ́ου toû bĭblĭ́ou |
τοῖν βῐβλῐ́οιν toîn bĭblĭ́oin |
τῶν βῐβλῐ́ων tôn bĭblĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βῐβλῐ́ῳ tôi bĭblĭ́ōi |
τοῖν βῐβλῐ́οιν toîn bĭblĭ́oin |
τοῖς βῐβλῐ́οις toîs bĭblĭ́ois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βῐβλῐ́ον tò bĭblĭ́on |
τὼ βῐβλῐ́ω tṑ bĭblĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ βῐβλῐ́ᾰ tằ bĭblĭ́ă | ||||||||||
Vocative | βῐβλῐ́ον bĭblĭ́on |
βῐβλῐ́ω bĭblĭ́ō |
βῐβλῐ́ᾰ bĭblĭ́ă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- βῐβλῐογραφῐ́ᾱ (bĭblĭographĭ́ā)
- βῐβλῐογρᾰ́φος (bĭblĭogrắphos)
- βῐβλῐοκᾰ́πηλος (bĭblĭokắpēlos)
- βῐβλῐοπηγός (bĭblĭopēgós)
- βῐβλῐοπώλης (bĭblĭopṓlēs)
- βῐβλῐοφῠ́λᾰξ (bĭblĭophŭ́lăx)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: βιβλίο (vivlío)
- Mariupol Greek: вивли́о (vivlío)
- → English: biblio-
- → Latin: Biblia, biblia (via plural)
Further reading
[edit]- “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 (2006–2025)
- 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.
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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