# βέλος
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷélHos, from *gʷelH- (“to throw, pierce”). The expected form is *δέλος, but the initial consonant has evidently been leveled with that of the cognate verb βάλλω (bállō). Cognates include Old High German quelan and Lithuanian gelti.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bé.los/ → /ˈβe.los/ → /ˈve.los/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /bé.los/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈbe.los/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈβe.los/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈve.los/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈve.los/

### Noun

βέλος • (bélos) n (genitive βέλους or βέλεος); third declension
* missile, arrow, dart
* weapon
* something quickly moving
* artillery

#### Derived terms

* βελοσφενδόνη (belosphendónē)
* Βελισάριος (Belisários)

#### Related terms

* βάλλω (bállō)
* βόλος (bólos)

#### Descendants

* Greek: βέλος (vélos)

#### See also

* ὀβελός (obelós)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βάλλω (> DER > 3. βέλος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 197-8

### Further reading

* “βέλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “βέλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “βέλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* βέλος 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
* βέλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* βέλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* “βέλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G956 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. arrow idem, page 42.bolt idem, page 88.dart idem, page 195.javelin idem, page 462.lance idem, page 474.missile idem, page 535.projectile idem, page 653.rapier idem, page 672.shaft idem, page 760.spear idem, page 799.sword idem, page 849.weapon idem, page 970.
* βέλος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek βέλος (bélos), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷélHos, from *gʷelH-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈve.los/
* Hyphenation: βέ‧λος

### Noun

βέλος • (vélos) n (plural βέλη)
* arrow, dart, arrow-shaft
    Synonyms: σαΐτα (saḯta), (diminutuve) βελάκι (veláki)
* cursor, pointer

#### Coordinate terms

* βόλη f (vóli, “shot”)
* τόξο n (tóxo, “bow”)
* τοξοβολία f (toxovolía, “archery”)
* τοξότης m (toxótis, “archer”)

#### Further reading

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