βδέλλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

Noun

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

  1. leech
    Synonyms: βδέλλῐον (bdéllion), δρῐ́λᾰξ (drílax)
  2. lamprey
  3. bdellium

Inflection

Descendants

  • Albanian: abdhellë
  • English: bdellatomy
  • French: bdellomètre
  • Greek: βδέλλα (vdélla)

References

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

Further reading

Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek βδέλλα (bdélla, leech).

Noun

βδέλλα • (vdélla) f (plural βδέλλες)

  1. leech
  2. (figuratively) sticker
  3. (figuratively) leech, parasite

Declension

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Further reading

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