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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The connection with φλήναφος (phlḗnaphos, “babbler; idle talk”) proves a Pre-Greek etymology, in view of the nasalization.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰlé.dɔːn/ → /ˈɸle.ðon/ → /ˈfle.ðon/
Noun
φλέδων • (phlédōn) m or f (genitive φλέδονος); third declension
- idle talker, babbler, chatterer
- Synonym: φλήνᾰφος (phlḗnaphos)
Inflection
ὁ, ἡ φλέδων ho, hē phlédōn
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τὼ φλέδονε tṑ phlédone
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οἱ, αἱ φλέδονες hoi, hai phlédones
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τοῦ, τῆς φλέδονος toû, tês phlédonos
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τοῖν φλεδόνοιν toîn phledónoin
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τῶν φλεδόνων tôn phledónōn
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τῷ, τῇ φλέδονῐ tôi, têi phlédoni
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τοῖν φλεδόνοιν toîn phledónoin
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τοῖς, ταῖς φλέδοσῐ / φλέδοσῐν toîs, taîs phlédosi(n)
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τὸν, τὴν φλέδονᾰ tòn, tḕn phlédona
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τὼ φλέδονε tṑ phlédone
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς φλέδονᾰς toùs, tā̀s phlédonas
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φλέδον phlédon
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φλέδονε phlédone
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φλέδονες phlédones
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “φλέδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φλέδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φλέδων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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