φλύκταινα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from a root "φλυκτ-", common also to 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

φλύκταινᾰ • (phlúktaina) f (genitive φλυκταίνᾱς); first declension

1. (medicine) A blister made by a burn
2. A blood blister
3. A pustule

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φλύκταινᾰ; τῆς φλυκταίνᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φλύκταινᾰ hē phlúktaina	τὼ φλυκταίνᾱ tṑ phluktaínā	αἱ φλύκταιναι hai phlúktainai
Genitive	τῆς φλυκταίνᾱς tês phluktaínās	τοῖν φλυκταίναιν toîn phluktaínain	τῶν φλυκταινῶν tôn phluktainôn
Dative	τῇ φλυκταίνᾳ têi phluktaínāi	τοῖν φλυκταίναιν toîn phluktaínain	ταῖς φλυκταίναις taîs phluktaínais
Accusative	τὴν φλύκταινᾰν tḕn phlúktainan	τὼ φλυκταίνᾱ tṑ phluktaínā	τᾱ̀ς φλυκταίνᾱς tā̀s phluktaínās
Vocative	φλύκταινᾰ phlúktaina	φλυκταίνᾱ phluktaínā	φλύκταιναι 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)

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