φλέψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally linked to a large group of words beginning with "φλ-", like φλέω (phléō), φλύω (phlúō) and φλύκταινα (phlúktaina). It has been supposed to be an enlargement in -gʷ- of Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell”), but this would not solve anything. Thus, a Pre-Greek origin is the most probable hypothesis.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

φλέψ • (phléps) f (genitive φλεβός); third declension

  1. (anatomy) vein

Declension
Third declension of ἡ φλέψ; τῆς φλεβός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ φλέψ
hē phléps		 τὼ φλέβε
tṑ phlébe		 αἱ φλέβες
hai phlébes
Genitive τῆς φλεβός
tês phlebós		 τοῖν φλεβοῖν
toîn phleboîn		 τῶν φλεβῶν
tôn phlebôn
Dative τῇ φλεβῐ́
têi phlebí		 τοῖν φλεβοῖν
toîn phleboîn		 ταῖς φλεψῐ́ / φλεψῐ́ν
taîs phlepsí(n)
Accusative τὴν φλέβᾰ
tḕn phléba		 τὼ φλέβε
tṑ phlébe		 τᾱ̀ς φλέβᾰς
tā̀s phlébas
Vocative φλέψ
phléps		 φλέβε
phlébe		 φλέβες
phlébes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • ἐπίφλεβος (epíphlebos)
  • φλεβικός (phlebikós)
  • φλέβιον (phlébion)
  • φλεβοδονώδης (phlebodonṓdēs)
  • φλεβονευρώδης (phleboneurṓdēs)
  • φλεβονώδης (phlebonṓdēs)
  • φλεβοπαλία (phlebopalía)
  • φλεβοπεριμέτριος (phleboperimétrios)
  • φλεβορραγία (phleborrhagía)
  • φλεβόσφυγμος (phlebósphugmos)
  • φλεβοτμής (phlebotmḗs)
  • φλεβοτομέω (phlebotoméō)
  • φλεβοτονέομαι (phlebotonéomai)
  • φλεβώδης (phlebṓdēs)

Descendants
  • English: phlebo-
  • Greek: φλέβα (fléva)

Further reading
  • “φλέψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “φλέψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “φλέψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • φλέψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • φλέψ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, 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
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