βδέλλα

Ancient Greek

From βδάλλω (bdállō, “I milk”, (in the middle voice, of a cow) “I yield to milking”; “I suck”), from Pre-Greek.^[1]

βδέλλᾰ • (bdéllă) f (genitive βδέλλης); first declension

First declension of ἡ βδέλλᾰ; τῆς βδέλλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βδέλλᾰ hē bdéllă	τὼ βδέλλᾱ tṑ bdéllā	αἱ βδέλλαι hai bdéllai
Genitive	τῆς βδέλλης tês bdéllēs	τοῖν βδέλλαιν toîn bdéllain	τῶν βδελλῶν tôn bdellôn
Dative	τῇ βδέλλῃ tēî bdéllēi	τοῖν βδέλλαιν toîn bdéllain	ταῖς βδέλλαις taîs bdéllais
Accusative	τὴν βδέλλᾰν tḕn bdéllăn	τὼ βδέλλᾱ tṑ bdéllā	τᾱ̀ς βδέλλᾱς tā̀s bdéllās
Vocative	βδέλλᾰ bdéllă	βδέλλᾱ bdéllā	βδέλλαι bdéllai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “βδάλλω”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 151

From the Ancient Greek βδέλλα (bdélla, “leech”).

βδέλλα • (vdélla) f (plural βδέλλες)