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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).[1]

• IPA(key): /bí.os/ → /ˈβi.os/ → /ˈvi.os/

• (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bí.os/

• (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbi.os/

• (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβi.os/

• (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvi.os/

• (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.os/

βῐ́ος • (bĭ́os) m (genitive βῐ́ου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. life (often with a positive connotation: the good life)

• Ἀναξίβια (Anaxíbia)

• Ἀναξίβιος (Anaxíbios)

• βιόω (bióō)

• βιωτικός (biōtikós)

• ἐναντίβιος (enantíbios)

• Ζηνόβιος (Zēnóbios)

• κοινόβιος (koinóbios)

• Πολύβιος (Polúbios)

• Ταλθύβιος (Talthúbios)

• → English: bio-

• Greek: βίος (víos)

• Coptic: ⲃⲓⲟⲥ (bios)

• Norwegian Bokmål: bio-

1. ^ 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

• “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[1], 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.

From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos).

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

βίος • (víos) m (plural βίοι)

1. life
2. lifespan
3. quality of life
4. biography, life story

Declension of βίος

| | singular | plural | | | ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | nominative | βίος (víos) | βίοι (víoi) | | genitive | βίου (víou) | βίων (víon) | | accusative | βίο (vío) | βίους (víous) | | vocative | βίε (víe) | βίοι (víoi) |

• (life): ζωή n (zoḯ)
• 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