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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Attic corruption, possibly by assimilation, of Ancient Greek βυβλίον (bublíon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi.blí.on/ → /βiˈβli.on/ → /viˈvli.on/
Noun
βῐβλῐ́ον • (biblíon) n (genitive βῐβλῐ́ου); second declension
- Strip of papyrus
- Small book, tablet, letter
- Any book or writing
Inflection
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Further reading
- “βιβλίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βιβλίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βιβλίον 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
- βιβλίον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G975 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.