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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the Pre-Greek root *φλυκτ (*phlukt) + -αινα (-aina). See also φλυκτίς (phluktís, “boil”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰlýk.tai̯.na/ → /ˈɸlyk.tɛ.na/ → /ˈflik.te.na/
Noun
φλῠ́κταινᾰ • (phlúktaina) f (genitive φλῠκταίνης); first declension
- blister made by a burn
- blood blister
- pustule
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Further reading
- “φλύκταινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φλύκταινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φλύκταινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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