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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from Βύβλος (Búblos, “Byblos (ancient city)”) (whence it was imported). However, it has been suggested that the town was named after this word rather than the other way around (which would render the Semitic etymologies given for the town name as folk etymology), and that the word is of Pre-Greek origin.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bý.blos/ → /ˈβy.βlos/ → /ˈvi.vlos/
Noun
βῠ́βλος • (búblos) f (genitive βῠ́βλου); second declension
- papyrus (both in reference to the plant and writings using the paper-like material derived from the plant)
- book
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References
Further reading
- “βύβλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βύβλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βύβλος 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
- βύβλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G976 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.