βλάξ
See also: βλαξ
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /blǎːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /blaks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βlaks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vlaks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vlaks/
Adjective edit
βλᾱ́ξ • (blā́x) m or f (neuter —); third declension
- slack, stupid
- (nominalized, m or f) dolt
Declension edit
Not attested in the neuter.
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | βλᾱ́ξ blā́x |
— | βλᾶκε blâke |
— | βλᾶκες blâkes |
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Genitive | βλᾱκός blākós |
— | βλᾱκοῖν blākoîn |
— | βλᾱκῶν blākôn |
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Dative | βλᾱκῐ́ blākí |
— | βλᾱκοῖν blākoîn |
— | βλᾱξῐ́ / βλᾱξῐ́ν blāxí(n) |
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Accusative | βλᾶκᾰ blâka |
— | βλᾶκε blâke |
— | βλᾶκᾰς blâkas |
— | ||||||||
Vocative | βλᾱ́ξ blā́x |
— | βλᾶκε blâke |
— | βλᾶκες blâkes |
— | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
— | βλᾱκότερος / βλᾱκώτερος blākóteros / blākṓteros |
βλᾱκότατος / βλᾱκώτατος / βλᾱκίστατος blākótatos / blākṓtatos / blākístatos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- βλάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βλάξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- βλάξ - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “βλάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.