βλίτον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βλῆτον (blêton)
Etymology
Unknown. Not related as *μλίτον (*mlíton) to μύλη (múlē, “mill”) and ἀμαλδύνω (amaldúnō, “to soften, mitigate”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /blí.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbli.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβli.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvli.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvli.ton/
Noun
βλῐ́τον • (blíton) n (genitive βλῐ́του); second declension
- purple amaranth (Amaranthus blitum)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ βλῐ́τον; τοῦ βλῐ́του (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βλῐ́τον tò blíton | τὼ βλῐ́τω tṑ blítō | τᾰ̀ βλῐ́τᾰ tà blíta | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βλῐ́του toû blítou | τοῖν βλῐ́τοιν toîn blítoin | τῶν βλῐ́των tôn blítōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βλῐ́τῳ tôi blítōi | τοῖν βλῐ́τοιν toîn blítoin | τοῖς βλῐ́τοις toîs blítois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βλῐ́τον tò blíton | τὼ βλῐ́τω tṑ blítō | τᾰ̀ βλῐ́τᾰ tà blíta | ||||||||||
Vocative | βλῐ́τον blíton | βλῐ́τω blítō | βλῐ́τᾰ blíta | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: βλίτο (vlíto)
- → Latin: blitum
- → Middle Armenian: վլիտոն (vliton)
Further reading
- βλίτον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βλίτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βλίτον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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