φλύκταινα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the Pre-Greek root *φλυκτ (*phlukt) +‎ -αινα (-aina). See also φλυκτίς (phluktís, “boil”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰlýk.tai̯.na/ → /ˈɸlyk.tɛ.na/ → /ˈflik.te.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰlýk.tai̯.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰlyk.tɛ.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸlyk.tɛ.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈflyk.te.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈflik.te.na/

Noun

φλῠ́κταινᾰ • (phlúktaina) f (genitive φλῠκταίνης); first declension

1. blister made by a burn
2. blood blister
3. pustule

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φλῠ́κταινᾰ; τῆς φλῠκταίνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φλῠ́κταινᾰ hē phlúktaina	τὼ φλῠκταίνᾱ tṑ phluktaínā	αἱ φλῠ́κταιναι hai phlúktainai
Genitive	τῆς φλῠκταίνης tês phluktaínēs	τοῖν φλῠκταίναιν toîn phluktaínain	τῶν φλῠκταινῶν tôn phluktainôn
Dative	τῇ φλῠκταίνῃ têi phluktaínēi	τοῖν φλῠκταίναιν toîn phluktaínain	ταῖς φλῠκταίναις taîs phluktaínais
Accusative	τὴν φλῠ́κταινᾰν tḕn phlúktainan	τὼ φλῠκταίνᾱ tṑ phluktaínā	τᾱ̀ς φλῠκταίνᾱς tā̀s phluktaínās
Vocative	φλῠ́κταινᾰ phlúktaina	φλῠκταίνᾱ phluktaínā	φλῠ́κταιναι phlúktainai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φλυκταινίδιον (phluktainídion)
• φλυκταινίς (phluktainís)
• φλυκταινοειδής (phluktainoeidḗs)
• φλυκταινόω (phluktainóō)
• φλυκταινώδης (phluktainṓdēs)
• φλυκταίνωσις (phluktaínōsis)

 

Descendants

• → English: phlyctena
• → French: phlyctène
  • → Romanian: flictenă
  • → Portuguese: flictena
• → Latin: phlyctaena

Further reading

• “φλύκταινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φλύκταινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φλύκταινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blain idem, page 81.
  • blister idem, page 84.
  • boil idem, page 87.
  • pimple idem, page 613.
  • pustule idem, page 660.
  • weal idem, page 970.
• 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