blida

See also: Blida, bliða, and blíða

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbliðɐ]

Noun

blida f (plural blidas)

1. Alternative form of belida (“cataract”)

References

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

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

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

Noun

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 [apud Kenylworthe] 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.

Further reading

• 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^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblida/, [ˈblʲida]

Noun

blida

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

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbliːˌda/

Noun

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.

Declension

Declension of blida
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	blida	blidan	blidor	blidorna
Genitive	blidas	blidans	blidors	blidornas

Anagrams

• bilda