φλύκταινα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the Pre-Greek root *φλυκτ (*phlukt) + -αινα (-aina). See also φλυκτίς (phluktís, “boil”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰlýk.tai̯.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰlyk.tɛ.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸlyk.tɛ.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈflyk.te.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈflik.te.na/
Noun
φλῠ́κταινᾰ • (phlúktaina) f (genitive φλῠκταίνης); first declension
- blister made by a burn
- blood blister
- pustule
Inflection
First declension of ἡ φλῠ́κταινᾰ; τῆς φλῠκταίνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ἡ φλῠ́κταινᾰ hē phlúktaina | τὼ φλῠκταίνᾱ tṑ phluktaínā | αἱ φλῠ́κταιναι hai phlúktainai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς φλῠκταίνης tês phluktaínēs | τοῖν φλῠκταίναιν toîn phluktaínain | τῶν φλῠκταινῶν tôn phluktainôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ φλῠκταίνῃ têi phluktaínēi | τοῖν φλῠκταίναιν toîn phluktaínain | ταῖς φλῠκταίναις taîs phluktaínais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν φλῠ́κταινᾰν tḕn phlúktainan | τὼ φλῠκταίνᾱ tṑ phluktaínā | τᾱ̀ς φλῠκταίνᾱς tā̀s phluktaínās | ||||||||||
Vocative | φλῠ́κταινᾰ phlúktaina | φλῠκταίνᾱ phluktaínā | φλῠ́κταιναι phlúktainai | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Derived terms
- φλυκταινίδιον (phluktainídion)
- φλυκταινίς (phluktainís)
- φλυκταινοειδής (phluktainoeidḗs)
- φλυκταινόω (phluktainóō)
- φλυκταινώδης (phluktainṓdēs)
- φλυκταίνωσις (phluktaínōsis)
Descendants
- → English: phlyctena
- → French: phlyctène
- → Romanian: flictenă
Further reading
- “φλύκταινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φλύκταινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φλύκταινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blain idem, page 81.
- blister idem, page 84.
- boil idem, page 87.
- pimple idem, page 613.
- pustule idem, page 660.
- weal idem, page 970.
- 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