βλῆχνον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βλᾶχνον (blâkhnon), βλᾶχρον (blâkhron), βλήχρα (blḗkhra), βλῆχρον (blêkhron)

Etymology

The variation "ρ/ν" points to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /blɛ̂ː.kʰnon/ → /ˈβli.xnon/ → /ˈvli.xnon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /blɛ̂ː.kʰnon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈble̝.kʰnon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβli.xnon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvli.xnon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvli.xnon/

Noun

βλῆχνον • (blêkhnon) n (genitive βλήχνου); second declension

1. male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ βλῆχνον; τοῦ βλήχνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βλῆχνον tò blêkhnon	τὼ βλήχνω tṑ blḗkhnō	τᾰ̀ βλῆχνᾰ tà blêkhna
Genitive	τοῦ βλήχνου toû blḗkhnou	τοῖν βλήχνοιν toîn blḗkhnoin	τῶν βλήχνων tôn blḗkhnōn
Dative	τῷ βλήχνῳ tôi blḗkhnōi	τοῖν βλήχνοιν toîn blḗkhnoin	τοῖς βλήχνοις toîs blḗkhnois
Accusative	τὸ βλῆχνον tò blêkhnon	τὼ βλήχνω tṑ blḗkhnō	τᾰ̀ βλῆχνᾰ tà blêkhna
Vocative	βλῆχνον blêkhnon	βλήχνω blḗkhnō	βλῆχνᾰ blêkhna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βλῆχνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βλῆχνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βλῆχνον 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