βία

• βῐ́η (bíē) – Epic, Ionic

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷey- (“to win”). Cognate with Sanskrit ज्या (jyā́, “overwhelming force; power; vanquishing”), जय (jayá, “victory”).

βῐ́ᾱ • (bíā) f (genitive βῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. bodily strength, force
2. act of violence

• βία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• βία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G970 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• βία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brute idem, page 102.
  • force idem, page 335.
  • might idem, page 528.
  • push idem, page 660.
  • violence idem, page 953.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

From Ancient Greek βία (bía).

βία • (vía) f (uncountable)

1. violence
2. force
3. bustle, rush

• (violence): βιαιοπραγία f (viaiopragía, “physical assault, assault and battery”)
• (violence): βιαιότητα f (viaiótita, “violence”)
• (rush): ορμητικότητα f (ormitikótita, “impetuosity, violence”)
• (bustle): παραφορά f (paraforá, “excitement”)
• (violence): σφοδρότητα f (sfodrótita, “violence, ferocity”)

• βία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el