βλίσσω
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *mlíťťō, from Proto-Indo-European *mlít-ye-ti, from *mélit (“honey”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /blís.sɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈblis.so/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβlis.so/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvlis.so/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvli.so/
Verb
[edit]βλῐ́σσω • (blíssō)
- to cut off combs of honey, take honey, squeeze honey
- (figurative) to squeeze people
- (figurative) to rub, fondle
- Erot., Fr. 16
Inflection
[edit] Present: βλῐ́σσω, βλῐ́σσομαι
Imperfect: ἔβλῐσσον, ἐβλῐσσόμην
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἔβλῐσσον | ἔβλῐσσες | ἔβλῐσσε(ν) | ἐβλῐ́σσετον | ἐβλῐσσέτην | ἐβλῐ́σσομεν | ἐβλῐ́σσετε | ἔβλῐσσον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐβλῐσσόμην | ἐβλῐ́σσου | ἐβλῐ́σσετο | ἐβλῐ́σσεσθον | ἐβλῐσσέσθην | ἐβλῐσσόμεθᾰ | ἐβλῐ́σσεσθε | ἐβλῐ́σσοντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Aorist: ἔβλῐσᾰ, ἐβλῐσᾰ́μην
Derived terms
[edit]- βλῐστηρῐ́ς (blistērís)
References
[edit]- “βλίττω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βλίττω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βλίττω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βλίσσω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βλίττω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 222
- Frisk, Hjalmar (1960) “βλίττω”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 245
- Chantraine, Pierre (1968) “βλίττω”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), volume I, Paris: Klincksieck, page 181
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek verbs
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms