See also: Blende

English

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Etymology

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From German Blende, from blenden (deceive) (because it resembles galena).

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blende (countable and uncountable, plural blendes)

  1. (mineralogy) sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 310:
      The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈblɛn.də/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: blen‧de
  • Rhymes: -ɛndə

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from German Blende.

Noun

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blende f (uncountable)

  1. metallic sulphide, in particular blende
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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blende

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of blenden

French

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blende m (plural blendes)

  1. (mineralogy) blende

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German

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blende

  1. inflection of blenden:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Blende, from blenden (to blind).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈblɛndɛ]
  • Hyphenation: blen‧de
  • Rhymes: -dɛ

Noun

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blende (plural blendék)

  1. (photography) aperture (the opening of a photographic lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light passing through)
    Synonym: rekesz

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative blende blendék
accusative blendét blendéket
dative blendének blendéknek
instrumental blendével blendékkel
causal-final blendéért blendékért
translative blendévé blendékké
terminative blendéig blendékig
essive-formal blendeként blendékként
essive-modal
inessive blendében blendékben
superessive blendén blendéken
adessive blendénél blendéknél
illative blendébe blendékbe
sublative blendére blendékre
allative blendéhez blendékhez
elative blendéből blendékből
delative blendéről blendékről
ablative blendétől blendéktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
blendéé blendéké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
blendééi blendékéi
Possessive forms of blende
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. blendém blendéim
2nd person sing. blendéd blendéid
3rd person sing. blendéje blendéi
1st person plural blendénk blendéink
2nd person plural blendétek blendéitek
3rd person plural blendéjük blendéik

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

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  • blende in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈblɛn.de/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnde
  • Hyphenation: blèn‧de

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blende f

  1. plural of blenda

Old English

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blēnde

  1. inflection of blandan:
    1. second-person singular preterite indicative
    2. singular preterite subjunctive