βία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷey- (“to win”). Cognate with Sanskrit ज्या (jyā́, “overwhelming force; power; vanquishing”), जय (jayá, “victory”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.a/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βῐ́ᾱ hē bíā |
τὼ βῐ́ᾱ tṑ bíā |
αἱ βῐ́αι hai bíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βῐ́ᾱς tês bíās |
τοῖν βῐ́αιν toîn bíain |
τῶν βῐῶν tôn biôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βῐ́ᾳ têi bíāi |
τοῖν βῐ́αιν toîn bíain |
ταῖς βῐ́αις taîs bíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βῐ́ᾱν tḕn bíān |
τὼ βῐ́ᾱ tṑ bíā |
τᾱ̀ς βῐ́ᾱς tā̀s bíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βῐ́ᾱ bíā |
βῐ́ᾱ bíā |
βῐ́αι bíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀλκιβιάδης (Alkibiádēs)
- βιάζω (biázō)
- βίαιος (bíaios)
- βιάω (biáō)
- Εὐρυβιάδης (Eurubiádēs)
- Ζηνοβία (Zēnobía)
- ὑπέρβιος (hupérbios)
Further reading
- βία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- βία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G970 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- βία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βία (bía).
Declension
Declension of βία (vía)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| nominative | βία • | |
| genitive | βίας • | |
| accusative | βία • | |
| vocative | βία • | |
| Uncommon plural form βίες | ||
Synonyms
- (violence): βιαιοπραγία f (viaiopragía, “physical assault, assault and battery”)
- (violence): βιαιότητα f (viaiótita, “violence”)
- (rush): ορμητικότητα f (ormitikótita, “impetuosity, violence”)
- (bustle): παραφορά f (paraforá, “excitement”)
- (violence): σφοδρότητα f (sfodrótita, “violence, ferocity”)
Further reading
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