# βίος
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Either from Proto-Hellenic *gʷīwos, from *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), and cognate with Old English cwic (English quick), Latin vīvus, and Old Church Slavonic живъ (živŭ); or a syncope of βίοτος (bíotos).
In either case, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), whence also ζωός (zōós) and ζῷον (zôion), and cognate with Old Church Slavonic жити (žiti), Sanskrit जीवति (jīvati), Latin vīvō, Old Armenian կեամ (keam).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bí.os/ → /ˈβi.os/ → /ˈvi.os/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /bí.os/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈbi.os/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈβi.os/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈvi.os/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈvi.os/

### Noun

βῐ́ος • (bĭ́os) m (genitive βῐ́ου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Koine)
* life (often with a positive connotation: the good life)

#### Derived terms

* Ἀναξίβια (Anaxíbia)
* Ἀναξίβιος (Anaxíbios)
* βιόω (bióō)
* βιωτικός (biōtikós)
* ἐναντίβιος (enantíbios)
* Ζηνόβιος (Zēnóbios)
* κοινόβιος (koinóbios)
* Πολύβιος (Polúbios)
* Ταλθύβιος (Talthúbios)

#### Descendants

* Greek: βίος (víos)
* → Coptic: ⲃⲓⲟⲥ (bios)
* → English: bio-
* → Norwegian Bokmål: bio-

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βιω-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 216-7

### Further reading

* “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 (2006–2025)
* “βίος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G979 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* 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 (bíos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvi.os/ compare to βιος (vios)
* Hyphenation: βί‧ος

### Noun

βίος • (víos) m (plural βίοι)
* life
* lifespan
* quality of life
* biography, life story

#### Synonyms

* (life): ζωή n (zoḯ)

### Further reading

* βίος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
* βίος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$