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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. Not related as *μλίτον (*mlíton) to μύλη (múlē, “mill”) and ἀμαλδύνω (amaldúnō, “to soften, mitigate”). Perhaps cognate to Albanian lëpjetë (“sorrel”). Also compare the cognates listed at Proto-Slavic *loboda (“goosefoot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blí.ton/ → /ˈβli.ton/ → /ˈvli.ton/
Noun
βλῐ́τον • (blíton) n (genitive βλῐ́του); second declension
- purple amaranth (Amaranthus blitum)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “βλίτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βλίτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βλίτον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βλίτον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 222