βλεφαρίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βλέφαρον (blépharon, “eyelid”) + -ῐ́ς (-ís).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ble.pʰa.rís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ble.pʰaˈris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βle.ɸaˈris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vle.faˈris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vle.faˈris/
Noun
βλεφᾰρῐ́ς • (blepharís) f (genitive βλεφᾰρῐ́δος); third declension
- (mostly in the plural) eyelash
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ βλεφᾰρῐ́ς; τῆς βλεφᾰρῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βλεφᾰρῐ́ς hē blepharís | τὼ βλεφᾰρῐ́δε tṑ blepharíde | αἱ βλεφᾰρῐ́δες hai blepharídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βλεφᾰρῐ́δος tês blepharídos | τοῖν βλεφᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn blepharídoin | τῶν βλεφᾰρῐ́δων tôn blepharídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βλεφᾰρῐ́δῐ têi blepharídi | τοῖν βλεφᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn blepharídoin | ταῖς βλεφᾰρῐ́σῐ / βλεφᾰρῐ́σῐν taîs blepharísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βλεφᾰρῐ́δᾰ tḕn blepharída | τὼ βλεφᾰρῐ́δε tṑ blepharíde | τᾱ̀ς βλεφᾰρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s blepharídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | βλεφᾰρῐ́ς blepharís | βλεφᾰρῐ́δε blepharíde | βλεφᾰρῐ́δες blepharídes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: βλεφαρίδα (vlefarída)
References
- “βλεφαρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βλεφαρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βλεφαρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βλεφαρίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)