βδέλλιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Hebrew בְּדֹלַח (bəḏṓlaḥ), cognate with Akkadian 𒁉𒁺𒌨𒄷 (bidurḫu).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bdél.li.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbdel.li.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβðel.li.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvðel.li.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvðe.li.on/
Noun
βδέλλῐον • (bdéllion) n (genitive βδελλῐ́ου); second declension
- bdellium, an aromatic gum obtained from Commiphora africana
- Synonyms: βλόχον (blókhon), μᾰ́λδᾰκον (máldakon)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ βδέλλῐον; τοῦ βδελλῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βδέλλῐον tò bdéllion | τὼ βδελλῐ́ω tṑ bdellíō | τᾰ̀ βδέλλῐᾰ tà bdéllia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βδελλῐ́ου toû bdellíou | τοῖν βδελλῐ́οιν toîn bdellíoin | τῶν βδελλῐ́ων tôn bdellíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βδελλῐ́ῳ tôi bdellíōi | τοῖν βδελλῐ́οιν toîn bdellíoin | τοῖς βδελλῐ́οις toîs bdellíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βδέλλῐον tò bdéllion | τὼ βδελλῐ́ω tṑ bdellíō | τᾰ̀ βδέλλῐᾰ tà bdéllia | ||||||||||
Vocative | βδέλλῐον bdéllion | βδελλῐ́ω bdellíō | βδέλλῐᾰ bdéllia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: bdellium
Further reading
- “βδέλλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βδέλλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βδέλλιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- 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, →ISBN