βελτίων

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βέλτερος (bélteros)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bel- + -ίων (-íōn). Cognates include Sanskrit बल (bala), Latin dēbilis, and Old Church Slavonic бол҄ии (bolʹii).

Pronunciation

Adjective

βελτῑ́ων • (beltī́ōn) m or f (neuter βέλτῑον); third declension

1. comparative degree of ἀγαθός (agathós): better

Declension

Further reading

• “βελτίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βελτίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βελτίων 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
• βελτίων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G957 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.
  • better idem, page 77.