βλέφαρον

Ancient Greek

According to Beekes, probably of Pre-Greek origin and cognate with βλέπω (blépō, “to see, to perceive”).^[1] Hamp had suggested Proto-Indo-European *gʷlep- (“to look”).^[2]

βλέφᾰρον • (blépharon) n (genitive βλεφάρου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βλέφᾰρον tò blépharon	τὼ βλεφᾰ́ρω tṑ blephárō	τᾰ̀ βλέφᾰρᾰ tà bléphara
Genitive	τοῦ βλεφᾰ́ρου toû blephárou	τοῖν βλεφᾰ́ροιν toîn blephároin	τῶν βλεφᾰ́ρων tôn blephárōn
Dative	τῷ βλεφᾰ́ρῳ tôi blephárōi	τοῖν βλεφᾰ́ροιν toîn blephároin	τοῖς βλεφᾰ́ροις toîs blephárois
Accusative	τὸ βλέφᾰρον tò blépharon	τὼ βλεφᾰ́ρω tṑ blephárō	τᾰ̀ βλέφᾰρᾰ tà bléphara
Vocative	βλέφᾰρον blépharon	βλεφᾰ́ρω blephárō	βλέφᾰρᾰ bléphara
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	βλέφᾰρον blépharon	βλεφᾰ́ρω blephárō	βλέφᾰρᾰ bléphara
Genitive	βλεφᾰ́ρου / βλεφᾰροῖο / βλεφᾰ́ροιο / βλεφᾰρόο / βλεφᾰ́ροο blephárou / blepharoîo / blephároio / blepharóo / blephároo	βλεφᾰ́ροιῐν blephároiin	βλεφᾰ́ρων blephárōn
Dative	βλεφᾰ́ρῳ blephárōi	βλεφᾰ́ροιῐν blephároiin	βλεφᾰ́ροισῐ / βλεφᾰ́ροισῐν / βλεφᾰ́ροις blephároisi(n) / blephárois
Accusative	βλέφᾰρον blépharon	βλεφᾰ́ρω blephárō	βλέφᾰρᾰ bléphara
Vocative	βλέφᾰρον blépharon	βλεφᾰ́ρω blephárō	βλέφᾰρᾰ bléphara
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

^ 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, page 220
^ Eric P. Hamp (1994) “Βλέφαϱον”, in Glotta : Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache, volume 72, number 1/4, Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG), →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 15:
On the lines of my analysis of ὀφθαλμός (Études celtiques 14, 1974, 192) as *okʷstH̥l-mo- or *okʷtsHl-mó- (a deverbal noun < a denominal verb) I would claim it to be more principled to analyze βλέφαρον as derived from βλέπ-ω in the form *gʷlep-H-ro-, just as χεφαλή is *kep-Hₐ-l-. Our lexeme βλέφαρον then implies an old heteroclite *gʷlep-H/n-.

“βλέφαρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“βλέφαρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“βλέφαρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
βλέφαρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
βλέφαρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
βλέφαρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
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