Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ψύλλος ‎(psúllos)
• ψύλλαξ ‎(psúllax)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸsýl̚la/

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

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

Noun

ψύλλα • ‎(psúlla) f ‎(genitive ψύλλης); first declension

1. flea
2. type of venomous spider, perhaps a type of widow
3. type of crop-eating insect

Inflection

References

• ψύλλα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ψύλλα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ψύλλα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • flea idem, page 327.
• 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