phlebotomus

See also: Phlebotomus

Latin

Alternative forms

• flebotomus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φλεβότομος (phlebótomos, “opening veins”), from φλέψ (phléps, “blood vessel”) +‎ τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) +‎ -ος (-os, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰleˈbo.to.mus/, [pʰɫ̪ɛˈbɔt̪ɔmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fleˈbo.to.mus/, [fleˈbɔːt̪omus]

Noun

phlebotomus m (genitive phlebotomī); second declension

1. Lancet, fleam.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phlebotomus	phlebotomī
Genitive	phlebotomī	phlebotomōrum
Dative	phlebotomō	phlebotomīs
Accusative	phlebotomum	phlebotomōs
Ablative	phlebotomō	phlebotomīs
Vocative	phlebotome	phlebotomī

Descendants

• Old French: flieme
  • French: flamme
  • → Middle Dutch: vlime
    • Dutch: vlijm
  • → Middle English: fleme
    • English: fleam
• Occitan: flecme
  • → Spanish: fleme
• → Proto-West Germanic: *flētimā (see there for further descendants)

References

• “phlebotomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fleme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “phlebotomus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)