fleam

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːm

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fleme, fleom, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French flieme, flemie (“open vein”), probably via a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  source (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Saxon flēma, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German fliotuma, fliodema, Old English flȳtme, flītme (“fleam, lancet”)), borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin fletoma, *fletomus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin flebotomus, phlebotomus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμον (phlebotómon). Compare French flamme, Dutch vlijm, German Fliete, Danish flitte (“fleam”).

Alternative forms

• phleam (archaic)

Noun

fleam (plural fleams)

1. A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.

Hypernyms

• (sharp instrument): lancet

Derived terms

• fleam saw
• fleam tooth

Translations

medical instrument

• Bulgarian: ланцет m (lancet)
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• Greek: φλεβοτόμος (el) m (flevotómos)

Etymology 2

From Middle English fleem, flem (“the rushing of water; current”), probably from Old English flēam (“fleeing; flight; rush”), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“stream; current; flood”), from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; flow; run”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk flaum (“flood”).

Alternative forms

• fleem

Noun

fleam (plural fleams)

1. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
2. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it

Related terms

• fleme (verb)

Anagrams

• femal, flame

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) fleam

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of fleō

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flaumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flæ͜ɑːm/

Noun

flēam m

1. escape, flight

   Fram sagum ne biþ nān flēam: hīe nabbaþ nānne anġinn and nānne ende.

   There is no escape from stories: they have no beginning and no end.

   Þā ġeflogenan rǣplingas sind nū ġīet on flēame.

   The escaped prisoners are still on the run (literally "in flight" or "in an escape").

Declension

Declension of fleam (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	flēam	flēamas
accusative	flēam	flēamas
genitive	flēames	flēama
dative	flēame	flēamum

Derived terms

• flīema
• tōflēam