βέλος
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See also: Βέλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷélHos, from *gʷelH-. (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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bé.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbe.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβe.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈve.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈve.los/
Noun
βέλος • (bélos) n (genitive βέλους or βέλεος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ βέλος tò bélos |
τὼ βέλει tṑ bélei |
τᾰ̀ βέλη tà bélē | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βέλους toû bélous |
τοῖν βελοῖν toîn beloîn |
τῶν βελῶν tôn belôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βέλει tôi bélei |
τοῖν βελοῖν toîn beloîn |
τοῖς βέλεσῐ / βέλεσῐν toîs bélesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ βέλος tò bélos |
τὼ βέλει tṑ bélei |
τᾰ̀ βέλη tà bélē | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βέλος bélos |
βέλει bélei |
βέλη bélē | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | βέλος bélos |
βέλει / βέλεε bélei / bélee |
βέλεᾰ bélea | ||||||||||
| Genitive | βέλεος / βέλευς béleos / béleus |
βελέοιν beléoin |
βελέων beléōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | βέλει / βέλεῐ̈ bélei / béleï |
βελέοιν beléoin |
βέλεσῐ / βέλεσῐν / βελέεσσῐ / βελέεσσῐν bélesi(n) / beléessi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | βέλος bélos |
βέλει / βέλεε bélei / bélee |
βέλεᾰ bélea | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βέλος bélos |
βέλει / βέλεε bélei / bélee |
βέλεᾰ bélea | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms
- βελοσφενδόνη (belosphendónē)
Related terms
Descendants
- Greek: βέλος (vélos)
See also
- ὀβελός (obelós)
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 (2006–2024)
- “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.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βέλος (bélos), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷélHos, from *gʷelH-.
Pronunciation
Noun
βέλος • (vélos) n (plural βέλη)
Declension
Declension of βέλος
Coordinate terms
Further reading
Βέλος (όπλο) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el- “βέλος”, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998
