βδελυρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word is mostly explained as formed from βδέω (bdéō, “to break wind”) with a suffix "-λυ-", but this is hardly possible. The derivation of the adjective from βδέω (bdéō) is also not clear semantically. According to Beekes, it is from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

Adjective

βδελῠρός • (bdelurós) m (feminine βδελῠρᾱ́, neuter βδελῠρόν); first/second declension

1. disgusting, loathsome, repulsive, blackguardly

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• →⇒ Translingual: Pambdelurion
  • → English: pambdelurion

Further reading

• “βδελυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βδελυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βδελυρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βδελυρός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βδελυρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 208