βλιστηρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βλῐ́σσω (blíssō, “to cut off honeycomb”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr, agent suffix) +‎ -ῐς (-is, 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 • (blistērís) (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 blistērís	τὼ βλῐστηρῐ́δε tṑ blistēríde	αἱ βλῐστηρῐ́δες hai blistērídes
Genitive	τῆς βλῐστηρῐ́δος tês blistērídos	τοῖν βλῐστηρῐ́δοιν toîn blistērídoin	τῶν βλῐστηρῐ́δων tôn blistērídōn
Dative	τῇ βλῐστηρῐ́δῐ têi blistērídi	τοῖν βλῐστηρῐ́δοιν toîn blistērídoin	ταῖς βλῐστηρῐ́σῐ / βλῐστηρῐ́σῐν taîs blistērísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν βλῐστηρῐ́δᾰ tḕn blistērída	τὼ βλῐστηρῐ́δε tṑ blistēríde	τᾱ̀ς βλῐστηρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s blistērídas
Vocative	βλῐστηρῐ́ς blistērís	βλῐστηρῐ́δε blistēríde	βλῐστηρῐ́δες blistērídes
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