βίος

Either from *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), and cognate with Old English cwic (English quick), Latin vīvus, and Old Church Slavonic живъ (živŭ); or a syncope of βίοτος (bíotos). In either case, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), whence also ζωός (zōós) and ζῷον (zôion), and cognate with Old Church Slavonic жити (žiti), Sanskrit जीवति (jīvati), Latin vīvō, Old Armenian կեամ (keam).

βῐ́ος • (bíos) m (genitive βῐ́ου); second declension

(Epic, Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. life (often with a positive connotation: the good life)

• → English: bio-
• Greek: βίος (víos)

• βίος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βίος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βίος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βίος 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
• βίος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βίος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• βίος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G979 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • being idem, page 72.
  • career idem, page 113.
  • course idem, page 178.
  • existence idem, page 292.
  • life idem, page 489.
  • livelihood idem, page 495.
  • living idem, page 496.
  • maintenance idem, page 508.
  • subsistence idem, page 832.
  • support idem, page 841.
  • sustenance idem, page 846.
  • tenor idem, page 862.

From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos).

βίος • (víos) m (plural βίοι)

1. life
2. lifespan
3. quality of life
4. biography, life story

• (life): ζωή n (zoḯ)

• βίος in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
• βίος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el