blida

• IPA^(key):

blida f (plural blidas)

1. Alternative form of belida (“cataract”)

• “blida” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

According to Niermeyer, from Byzantine Greek βάλις, βάλιδος (bális, bálidos), related to Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”). Attested in Latin since the 13th century.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbliː.da/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbli.da/,

The pronunciation with a long -ī- is at least attested in Marrasio Giovanni (c. 1400-1452), Carmina varia 1.28, in an elegiac couplet:

Scorpĭŏ, funda, arcus, tormentum, blīdă, săgittae,

Hasta, ărĭēs, jăculum, pīlă, măcēra văcant

blīda f (genitive blīdae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a trebuchet, catapult
   • before 1266, Ricardus Anglicus de Morins, Annales Prioratus de Dunstaplia , (edited by Hearne in 1733, as cited in DMLBS):

     levatis circumquaque machinis novem, que vocantur blidis, lapides jacere non cessabant, confringentes ex his domos et turres ligneas; muros et opus lapideum prosternere volentes, in nullo dampnificare poterant

     At Kenilworth, after taking nine machines called blidae (trebuchets) everywhere around, they would not stop throwing rocks, shattering houses and towers made of wood, but even though they wanted to open walls and other work made of rock, they could not damage them.

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “blīda”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 100
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “blida”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

• IPA^(key): /ˈblida/,

blida

1. inflection of blido:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

From Old Swedish blidha, from Medieval Latin blida with the same meaning. Ultimately from Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbliːˌda/

blida c

1. trebuchet

   Det krävdes ett stort antal blidor för att inta fästningen.

   It took a great number of trebuchets to capture the fortress.

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