βελτίων

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

βέλτερος (bélteros)

Etymology

Analyzable as Proto-Indo-European *bel- (“strong”) (perhaps via an unattested *βελτός (*beltós, “desired”), per Seiler) + -ίων (-íōn). Cognates include Sanskrit बल (bala), Latin dēbilis, and Old Church Slavonic бол҄ии (bolʹii).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bel.tǐː.ɔːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /belˈti.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βelˈti.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /velˈti.on/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /velˈti.on/

Adjective

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

comparative degree of ἀγαθός (agathós): better

Declension

Third declension of βελτῑ́ων; βέλτῑον (Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	βελτῑ́ων beltī́ōn	βέλτῑον béltīon	βελτῑ́ονε beltī́one	βελτῑ́ονε beltī́one	βελτῑ́ονες / βελτῑ́ους beltī́ones / beltī́ous	βελτῑ́ονᾰ / βελτῑ́ω beltī́ona / beltī́ō
Genitive	βελτῑ́ονος beltī́onos	βελτῑ́ονος beltī́onos	βελτῑόνοιν beltīónoin	βελτῑόνοιν beltīónoin	βελτῑόνων beltīónōn	βελτῑόνων beltīónōn
Dative	βελτῑ́ονῐ beltī́oni	βελτῑ́ονῐ beltī́oni	βελτῑόνοιν beltīónoin	βελτῑόνοιν beltīónoin	βελτῑ́οσῐ / βελτῑ́οσῐν beltī́osi(n)	βελτῑ́οσῐ / βελτῑ́οσῐν beltī́osi(n)
Accusative	βελτῑ́ονᾰ / βελτῑ́ω beltī́ona / beltī́ō	βέλτῑον béltīon	βελτῑ́ονε beltī́one	βελτῑ́ονε beltī́one	βελτῑ́ονᾰς / βελτῑ́ους beltī́onas / beltī́ous	βελτῑ́ονᾰ / βελτῑ́ω beltī́ona / beltī́ō
Vocative	βέλτῑον béltīon	βέλτῑον béltīon	βελτῑ́ονε beltī́one	βελτῑ́ονε beltī́one	βελτῑ́ονες / βελτῑ́ους beltī́ones / beltī́ous	βελτῑ́ονᾰ / βελτῑ́ω beltī́ona / beltī́ō
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	βελτῑόνως beltīónōs		—		—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

βελτιόω (beltióō, “to improve”)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βέλτερος (> VAR βελτίων)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 210

“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.
“βελτίων”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βέλτερος (> VAR βελτίων)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 210

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