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βίοτος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βίοτος

Structure: βιοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = bi/os I

Sense

  1. 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

  • διὰ δ’ αἰθερίασ στείχοντε πλακὸσ τοῖσ μὲν μυσαροῖσ οὐκ ἐπαρήγομεν, οἷσιν δ’ ὅσιον καὶ τὸ δίκαιον φίλον ἐν βιότῳ, τούτουσ χαλεπῶν ἐκλύοντεσ μόχθων σῴζομεν. (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:20)
  • τό τ’ ἔπειτα καὶ τὸ μέλλον καὶ τὸ πρὶν ἐπαρκέσει νόμοσ ὅδ’, οὐδὲν ἑρ́πει θνατῶν βιότῳ πάμπολύ γ’ ἐκτὸσ ἄτασ. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 23)
  • ἄπονον δ’ ἔλαβον χάρμα παῦροί τινεσ, ἔργων πρὸ πάντων βιότῳ φάοσ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 10 6:1)
  • οὐράνιον τὸ μνᾶμα καὶ ἁ χρυσήλατοσ ἀκτὶσ ἀνδρόσ, ἴσον βιότῳ καὶ τάφον εὑραμένου, ἄστροισ γειτονέοντα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 51)
  • ἆ καλὸν αὐτοπόνητον ἐν αἰθέρι ῥεῦμα μελισσῶν, κἄπλαστοι χειρῶν αὐτοπαγεῖσ θαλάμαι, προίκιοσ ἀνθρώπων βιότῳ χάρισ, οὐχὶ μακέλλασ, οὐ βοόσ, οὐ γαμψῶν δευομένα δρεπάνων, γαυλοῦ δὲ σμικροῖο, τόθι γλυκὺ νᾶμα μέλισσα πηγάζει σκήνευσ δαψιλὲσ ἐξ ὀλίγου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4041)

Synonyms

  1. life

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