γλίνη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- γλίνα (glína), γλήνη (glḗnē)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick; to spread, to smear”). Cognate with γλία (glía), γλοιός (gloiós), Latin gluten, Proto-Germanic *klajjaz and Lithuanian glitùs.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡlǐː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡli.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣli.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣli.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣli.ni/
Noun
γλῑ́νη • (glī́nē) f (genitive γλῑ́νης); first declension
- any viscous substance, slime, ooze
Inflection
First declension of ἡ γλῑ́νη; τῆς γλῑ́νης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ γλῑ́νη hē glī́nē | τὼ γλῑ́νᾱ tṑ glī́nā | αἱ γλῖναι hai glînai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς γλῑ́νης tês glī́nēs | τοῖν γλῑ́ναιν toîn glī́nain | τῶν γλῑνῶν tôn glīnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ γλῑ́νῃ têi glī́nēi | τοῖν γλῑ́ναιν toîn glī́nain | ταῖς γλῑ́ναις taîs glī́nais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν γλῑ́νην tḕn glī́nēn | τὼ γλῑ́νᾱ tṑ glī́nā | τᾱ̀ς γλῑ́νᾱς tā̀s glī́nās | ||||||||||
Vocative | γλῑ́νη glī́nē | γλῑ́νᾱ glī́nā | γλῖναι glînai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- γλῑνώδης (glīnṓdēs)
Further reading
- “γλίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γλίνη 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