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βίος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βίος βίου

Structure: βι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. life

Note

(often with a positive connotation: the good life)

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰ δὲ ἀσεβείαισ κατὰ τὴν ἀποικίαν ὁ βίοσ ἡμῶν ἐνέσχηται, ρυσάμενοσ ἡμᾶσ ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν χειρόσ, ὡσ προαιρῇ, Δέσποτα, ἀπόλεσον ἡμᾶσ μόρῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:10)
  • ΠΟΤΕΡΟΝ οὐχὶ πειρατήριόν ἐστιν ὁ βίοσ ἀνθρώπου ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ ὥσπερ μισθίου αὐθημερινοῦ ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 7:1)
  • ὁ δὲ βίοσ μού ἐστιν ἐλαφρότεροσ λαλιᾶσ, ἀπόλωλε δὲ ἐν κενῇ ἐλπίδι. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 7:6)
  • οὐ γὰρ εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα ζήσομαι, ἵνα μακροθυμήσω. ἀπόστα ἀπ̓ ἐμοῦ, κενὸσ γάρ μου ὁ βίοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 7:16)
  • χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν, σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ ὁ βίοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 8:9)

Synonyms

  1. life

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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