blida

See also: Blida, bliða, and blíða

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbliðɐ]

Noun

blida f (plural blidas)

1. Alternative form of belida (“cataract”)

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “blida”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Latin

Etymology

According to Niermeyer, from Byzantine Greek βάλις, βάλιδος (bális, bálidos), related to Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”). Attested in Latin since the 13th century.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbliː.da/, [ˈblʲiːd̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbli.da/, [ˈbliːd̪ä]
• The pronunciation with a long -ī- is at least attested in Marrasio Giovanni (c. 1400-1452), Carmina varia 1.28, in an elegiac couplet (Scorpĭŏ, funda, arcus, tormentum, blīdă, săgittae, / Hasta, ărĭēs, jăculum, pīlă, măcēra văcant).

Noun

blīda f (genitive blīdae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a trebuchet, catapult
   • before 1266, Ricardus Anglicus de Morins, Annales Prioratus de Dunstaplia , (edited by Hearne in 1733, as cited in DMLBS):

     levatis circumquaque [apud Kenylworthe] machinis novem, que vocantur blidis, lapides jacere non cessabant, confringentes ex his domos et turres ligneas; muros et opus lapideum prosternere volentes, in nullo dampnificare poterant

     At Kenilworth, after taking nine machines called blidae (trebuchets) everywhere around, they would not stop throwing rocks, shattering houses and towers made of wood, but even though they wanted to open walls and other work made of rock, they could not damage them.

Descendants

• → Middle Dutch: blide
  • Dutch: blijde
• → Middle High German: blīde
  • German: Blide, Bleide
• → Middle Low German: blîde
  • → Danish: blide
  • → Swedish: blida

Further reading

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “blīda”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 100
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “blida”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblida/, [ˈblʲida]

Noun

blida

1. inflection of blido:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Swedish

en blida

Etymology

From Old Swedish blidha, borrowed (likely through Middle Low German blîde) from Medieval Latin blida. Ultimately from Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbliːˌda/

Noun

blida c

1. a trebuchet

   Synonym: kastmaskin

   slunga stenar med en blida

   hurl rocks with a trebuchet

   Det krävdes ett stort antal blidor för att inta fästningen

   It took a great number of trebuchets to capture the fortress

Declension

Declension of blida

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	blida	blidas
	definite	blidan	blidans
plural	indefinite	blidor	blidors
	definite	blidorna	blidornas

References

• blida in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• bilda