βλάβη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Considering Cretan forms (ἀβλοπής (ablopḗs) for ἀβλαβής (ablabḗs) and ἀβλοπία (ablopía) for ἀβλαβεία (ablabeía)) βλαβ- perhaps resulted from βλαπ- by assimilation, but the interchanges α/ο and β/π are typical of Pre-Greek. See also βλάσφημος (blásphēmos), Latin mulcō (“I beat, maltreat”), Sanskrit मृच् (mṛc, “threatening or injury”) and मर्चयति (marcayati, “to hurt, injure”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /blá.bɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbla.be̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβla.βi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvla.vi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvla.vi/
Noun
βλᾰ́βη • (blábē) f (genitive βλᾰ́βης); first declension
- hurt, harm, damage, mischief
- Synonym: βλᾰ́μμᾰ (blámma)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ βλᾰ́βη; τῆς βλᾰ́βης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βλᾰ́βη hē blábē | τὼ βλᾰ́βᾱ tṑ blábā | αἱ βλᾰ́βαι hai blábai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βλᾰ́βης tês blábēs | τοῖν βλᾰ́βαιν toîn blábain | τῶν βλᾰβῶν tôn blabôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βλᾰ́βῃ têi blábēi | τοῖν βλᾰ́βαιν toîn blábain | ταῖς βλᾰ́βαις taîs blábais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βλᾰ́βην tḕn blábēn | τὼ βλᾰ́βᾱ tṑ blábā | τᾱ̀ς βλᾰ́βᾱς tā̀s blábās | ||||||||||
Vocative | βλᾰ́βη blábē | βλᾰ́βᾱ blábā | βλᾰ́βαι blábai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀβλαβής (ablabḗs)
- βλαβεραυγής (blaberaugḗs)
- βλαβερός (blaberós)
- βλαβόεις (blabóeis)
Related terms
- βλάβος (blábos)
- βλάπτω (bláptō)
Descendants
- Greek: βλάβη (vlávi)
Further reading
- “βλάβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βλάβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βλάβη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βλάβη 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βλάβη (blábē).
Noun
βλάβη • (vlávi) f (plural βλάβες)
- damage, detriment, harm
Declension
declension of βλάβη
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | βλάβη • | βλάβες • |
genitive | βλάβης • | βλαβών • |
accusative | βλάβη • | βλάβες • |
vocative | βλάβη • | βλάβες • |
Related terms
- βλαβερός (vlaverós, “harmful”, adjective)
Further reading
βλάβη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el