Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /βðél̚la/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vðél̚la/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vðéla/

Noun

βδελλᾰ • ‎(bdella) f ‎(genitive βδέλλας); first declension

1. leech
   1. lamprey
2. bdellium

Inflection

Synonyms

• (bdellium): βδέλλιον ‎(bdéllion)

Descendants

• English: bdellatomy
• French: bdellomètre
• Greek: βδέλλα ‎(vdélla)

References

• βδέλλα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βδέλλα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «βδέλλα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βδέλλα» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • leech idem, page 484.
• LSJ 7th edition

Greek

Alternative forms

• αβδέλλα f ‎(avdélla) (colloquial)

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek βδέλλα ‎(bdélla, “leech”).

Noun

βδέλλα • ‎(vdélla) f ‎(plural βδέλλες)

1. leech
2. (figuratively) sticker
3. (figuratively) leech, parasite

Declension

Synonyms

• (parasite): παράσιτο n ‎(parásito, “parasite”)

External links

• βδέλλα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el