βιός

See also: βιος and βίος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷiH-. Cognate with Sanskrit जिया (jiyā́), ज्या (jyā́, “bow-string”), Old Church Slavonic жила (žila, “vein, tendon”), and Albanian mzith.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bi.ós/ → /βiˈos/ → /viˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bi.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /biˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βiˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /viˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /viˈos/

Noun

βιός • (biós) m (genitive βιοῦ); second declension

1. bow
2. bow-string, tendon

Declension

Second declension of ὁ βῐός; τοῦ βῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βῐός ho biós	τὼ βῐώ tṑ biṓ	οἱ βῐοί hoi bioí
Genitive	τοῦ βῐοῦ toû bioû	τοῖν βῐοῖν toîn bioîn	τῶν βῐῶν tôn biôn
Dative	τῷ βῐῷ tôi biôi	τοῖν βῐοῖν toîn bioîn	τοῖς βῐοῖς toîs bioîs
Accusative	τὸν βῐόν tòn bión	τὼ βῐώ tṑ biṓ	τοὺς βῐούς toùs bioús
Vocative	βῐέ bié	βῐώ biṓ	βῐοί bioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “βιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βιός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βιός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βιός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “βιός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter