Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βίη ‎(bíē) (Ionic)

Noun

βία • ‎(bía) f ‎(genitive βίας); first declension

1. bodily strength, force
2. act of violence

Inflection

Derived terms

• βίαιος ‎(bíaios, “violent”)
• βιάω ‎(biáō)
• βιάζω ‎(biázō)

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• 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.
  • brute idem, page 102.
  • force idem, page 335.
  • might idem, page 528.
  • push idem, page 660.
  • violence idem, page 953.
• 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.

Noun

βία • ‎(vía) f ‎(uncountable)

1. violence
2. force
3. bustle, rush

Declension

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”)