Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /βíos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /víos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /víos/

Noun

βίος • ‎(bíos) m ‎(genitive βίου); second declension

1. life (often with a positive connotation: the good life)

Inflection

Descendants

• English: abiogenesis, bio-, biology, semiosis, symbiosis
• Greek: βίος ‎(víos)

References

• βίος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βίος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βίος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «βίος» 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
• «βίος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «βίος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• βίος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G979”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • being idem, page 72.
  • career idem, page 113.
  • course idem, page 178.
  • existence idem, page 292.
  • life idem, page 489.
  • livelihood idem, page 495.
  • living idem, page 496.
  • maintenance idem, page 508.
  • subsistence idem, page 832.
  • support idem, page 841.
  • sustenance idem, page 846.
  • tenor idem, page 862.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βίος

Noun

βίος • ‎(víos) m ‎(plural βίοι)

1. life
2. lifespan
3. quality of life
4. biography, life story

Declension

Synonyms

• (life): ζωή n ‎(zoí)