βία

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷey- (“to win”).

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

First declension of ἡ βῐ́ᾱ; τῆς βῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βῐ́ᾱ hē bíā	τὼ βῐ́ᾱ tṑ bíā	αἱ βῐ́αι hai bíai
Genitive	τῆς βῐ́ᾱς tês bíās	τοῖν βῐ́αιν toîn bíain	τῶν βῐῶν tôn biôn
Dative	τῇ βῐ́ᾳ têi bíāi	τοῖν βῐ́αιν toîn bíain	ταῖς βῐ́αις taîs bíais
Accusative	τὴν βῐ́ᾱν tḕn bíān	τὼ βῐ́ᾱ tṑ bíā	τᾱ̀ς βῐ́ᾱς tā̀s bíās
Vocative	βῐ́ᾱ bíā	βῐ́ᾱ bíā	βῐ́αι bíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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 (2006–2018)
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

βία • (vía) f (uncountable)

Declension of βία (vía)

(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”)