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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Considering Cretan forms (ἀβλοπής (ablopḗs) for ἀβλαβής (ablabḗs) and ἀβλοπία (ablopía) for ἀβλαβεία (ablabeía)) βλαβ- perhaps resulted from βλαπ- by assimilation, but the interchanges α/ο and β/π are typical of Pre-Greek. See also βλάσφημος (blásphēmos), Latin mulcō (“I beat, maltreat”), Sanskrit मृच् (mṛc, “threatening or injury”) and मर्चयति (marcayati, “to hurt, injure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blá.bɛː/ → /ˈβla.βi/ → /ˈvla.vi/
Noun
βλᾰ́βη • (blábē) f (genitive βλᾰ́βης); first declension
- hurt, harm, damage, mischief
- Synonym: βλᾰ́μμᾰ (blámma)
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “βλάβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βλάβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βλάβη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βλάβη 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βλάβη (blábē).
Noun
βλάβη • (vlávi) f (plural βλάβες)
- damage, detriment, harm
Declension
- βλαβερός (vlaverós, “harmful”, adjective)
Further reading