phlebotomus
See also: Phlebotomus
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek φλεβότομος (phlebótomos, “opening veins”), from φλέψ (phléps, “blood vessel”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) + -ος (-os, adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pʰleˈbo.to.mus/, [pʰɫ̪ɛˈbɔt̪ɔmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fleˈbo.to.mus/, [fleˈbɔːt̪omus]
Noun
editphlebotomus m (genitive phlebotomī); second declension
Inflection
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | phlebotomus | phlebotomī |
Genitive | phlebotomī | phlebotomōrum |
Dative | phlebotomō | phlebotomīs |
Accusative | phlebotomum | phlebotomōs |
Ablative | phlebotomō | phlebotomīs |
Vocative | phlebotome | phlebotomī |
Descendants
edit- Old French: flieme
- Occitan: flecme
- → Spanish: fleme
- → Proto-West Germanic: *flētimā (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- “phlebotomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fleme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “phlebotomus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch