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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷl̥H-trom, from *gʷelH- (“to throw”), even though Beekes finds the connection with βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, cast”) uncertain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blɛ̂ː.tron/ → /ˈβli.tron/ → /ˈvli.tron/
Noun
βλῆτρον • (blêtron) n (genitive βλήτρου); second declension
- fastening: band or hoop
- rivet, bolt, plug
Inflection
Further reading
- “βλῆτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βλῆτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “βλῆτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βλῆτρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βλῆτρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- βλῆτρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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