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 • (phlŭ́ktaină) f (genitive φλῠκταίνης); first declension
- blister made by a burn
- blood blister
- pustule
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ φλῠ́κταινᾰ hē phlŭ́ktaină |
τὼ φλῠκταίνᾱ tṑ phlŭktaínā |
αἱ φλῠ́κταιναι hai phlŭ́ktainai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς φλῠκταίνης tês phlŭktaínēs |
τοῖν φλῠκταίναιν toîn phlŭktaínain |
τῶν φλῠκταινῶν tôn phlŭktainôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ φλῠκταίνῃ tēî phlŭktaínēi |
τοῖν φλῠκταίναιν toîn phlŭktaínain |
ταῖς φλῠκταίναις taîs phlŭktaínais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν φλῠ́κταινᾰν tḕn phlŭ́ktainăn |
τὼ φλῠκταίνᾱ tṑ phlŭktaínā |
τᾱ̀ς φλῠκταίνᾱς tā̀s phlŭktaínās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φλῠ́κταινᾰ phlŭ́ktaină |
φλῠκταίνᾱ phlŭktaínā |
φλῠ́κταιναι phlŭ́ktainai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- φλυκταινίδιον (phluktainídion)
- φλυκταινίς (phluktainís)
- φλυκταινοειδής (phluktainoeidḗs)
- φλυκταινόω (phluktainóō)
- φλυκταινώδης (phluktainṓdēs)
- φλυκταίνωσις (phluktaínōsis)
Descendants
- → English: phlyctena
- → French: phlyctène
- → Romanian: flictenă
- → Portuguese: flictena
- → Latin: phlyctaena
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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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