βλέννα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βλένα (bléna), πλέννα (plénna)

Etymology

Often connected with Sanskrit मृदु (mṛdu, “soft, gentle”) and Middle Irish blind (“slime from the mouth of a dead man”). However, according to Furnée, the variations would prove a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /blén.na/ → /ˈβlen.na/ → /ˈvle.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /blén.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈblen.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβlen.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvlen.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvle.na/

Noun

βλέννα • (blénna) f (genitive βλέννης); first declension

1. mucus

   Synonyms: κόρυζα (kóruza), λέμφος (lémphos), μύξα (múxa)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βλέννᾰ; τῆς βλέννης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βλέννᾰ hē blénna	τὼ βλέννᾱ tṑ blénnā	αἱ βλένναι hai blénnai
Genitive	τῆς βλέννης tês blénnēs	τοῖν βλένναιν toîn blénnain	τῶν βλεννῶν tôn blennôn
Dative	τῇ βλέννῃ têi blénnēi	τοῖν βλένναιν toîn blénnain	ταῖς βλένναις taîs blénnais
Accusative	τὴν βλέννᾰν tḕn blénnan	τὼ βλέννᾱ tṑ blénnā	τᾱ̀ς βλέννᾱς tā̀s blénnās
Vocative	βλέννᾰ blénna	βλέννᾱ blénnā	βλένναι blénnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βλέννος (blénnos)
• βλεννός (blennós)
• βλεννώδης (blennṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “βλέννα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βλέννα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βλέννα 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βλεννός (blennós), probably of Pre-Greek origin hinted by the variations between π ~ β, νν ~ ν.

Noun

βλέννα • (vlénna) f (plural βλέννες)

1. mucus
2. snot (colloquial)

Declension

Declension of βλέννα

	singular	plural
nominative	βλέννα •	βλέννες •
genitive	βλέννας •	βλεννών •
accusative	βλέννα •	βλέννες •
vocative	βλέννα •	βλέννες •

Further reading

• βλέννα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el