βλιστηρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βλῐ́σσω (blĭ́ssō, “to cut off honeycomb”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr, agent suffix) +‎ -ῐς (-ĭs, forms feminine nouns).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /blis.tɛː.rís/ → /βlis.tiˈris/ → /vlis.tiˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /blis.tɛː.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /blis.te̝ˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βlis.tiˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vlis.tiˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vlis.tiˈris/

Adjective

βλῐστηρῐ́ς • (blĭstērĭ́s) (attested only in feminine singular); third declension

1. (with χείρ) taking honey
   • Palatine Anthology 9.226

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βλῐστηρῐ́ς; τῆς βλῐστηρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βλῐστηρῐ́ς hē blĭstērĭ́s	τὼ βλῐστηρῐ́δε tṑ blĭstērĭ́de	αἱ βλῐστηρῐ́δες hai blĭstērĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς βλῐστηρῐ́δος tês blĭstērĭ́dos	τοῖν βλῐστηρῐ́δοιν toîn blĭstērĭ́doin	τῶν βλῐστηρῐ́δων tôn blĭstērĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ βλῐστηρῐ́δῐ têi blĭstērĭ́dĭ	τοῖν βλῐστηρῐ́δοιν toîn blĭstērĭ́doin	ταῖς βλῐστηρῐ́σῐ / βλῐστηρῐ́σῐν taîs blĭstērĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν βλῐστηρῐ́δᾰ tḕn blĭstērĭ́dă	τὼ βλῐστηρῐ́δε tṑ blĭstērĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς βλῐστηρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s blĭstērĭ́dăs
Vocative	βλῐστηρῐ́ς blĭstērĭ́s	βλῐστηρῐ́δε blĭstērĭ́de	βλῐστηρῐ́δες blĭstērĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “βλιστηρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βλιστηρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βλιστηρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette