βδέλλα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βδάλλω (bdállō, “I milk”, (in the middle voice, of a cow) “I yield to milking”; “I suck”), from Pre-Greek.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bdél.la/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbdel.la/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβðel.la/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvðel.la/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvðe.la/
Noun
βδέλλᾰ • (bdélla) f (genitive βδέλλης); first declension
- leech
- Synonym: δρῐ́λᾰξ (drílax)
- lamprey
- bdellium
Inflection
First declension of ἡ βδέλλᾰ; τῆς βδέλλης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βδέλλᾰ hē bdélla | τὼ βδέλλᾱ tṑ bdéllā | αἱ βδέλλαι hai bdéllai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βδέλλης tês bdéllēs | τοῖν βδέλλαιν toîn bdéllain | τῶν βδελλῶν tôn bdellôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βδέλλῃ têi bdéllēi | τοῖν βδέλλαιν toîn bdéllain | ταῖς βδέλλαις taîs bdéllais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βδέλλᾰν tḕn bdéllan | τὼ βδέλλᾱ tṑ bdéllā | τᾱ̀ς βδέλλᾱς tā̀s bdéllās | ||||||||||
Vocative | βδέλλᾰ bdélla | βδέλλᾱ bdéllā | βδέλλαι bdéllai | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (bdellium): βδέλλῐον (bdéllion)
Descendants
- Albanian: abdhellë
- English: bdellatomy
- French: bdellomètre
- Greek: βδέλλα (vdélla)
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014), “βδάλλω”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 151
Further reading
- “βδέλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βδέλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βδέλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βδέλλα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- leech idem, page 484.
Greek
Alternative forms
- αβδέλλα f (avdélla) (colloquial)
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek βδέλλα (bdélla, “leech”).
Noun
βδέλλα • (vdélla) f (plural βδέλλες)
- leech
- (figuratively) sticker
- (figuratively) leech, parasite
Declension
declension of βδέλλα
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | βδέλλα • | βδέλλες • |
genitive | βδέλλας • | βδελλών • |
accusative | βδέλλα • | βδέλλες • |
vocative | βδέλλα • | βδέλλες • |
Synonyms
- (parasite): παράσιτο n (parásito, “parasite”)
Related terms
- αβδελλιάζω (avdelliázo, “infested by leeches”)
- βδελλιάζω (vdelliázo, “infested by leeches”)
Further reading
βδέλλα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el