βλάβη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Considering Cretan forms (ἀβλοπής (ablopḗs) for ἀβλαβής (ablabḗs) and ἀβλοπία (ablopía) for ἀβλαβεία (ablabeía)) βλαβ- perhaps resulted from βλαπ- by assimilation, but the interchanges α/ο and β/π are typical of Pre-Greek. See also βλάσφημος (blásphēmos), Latin mulcō (“I beat, maltreat”), Sanskrit मृच् (mṛc, “threatening or injury”) and मर्चयति (marcayati, “to hurt, injure”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /blá.bɛː/ → /ˈβla.βi/ → /ˈvla.vi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /blá.bɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbla.be̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβla.βi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvla.vi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvla.vi/

Noun

βλᾰ́βη • (blắbē) f (genitive βλᾰ́βης); first declension

1. hurt, harm, damage, mischief

   Synonym: βλᾰ́μμᾰ (blắmmă)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βλᾰ́βη; τῆς βλᾰ́βης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βλᾰ́βη hē blắbē	τὼ βλᾰ́βᾱ tṑ blắbā	αἱ βλᾰ́βαι hai blắbai
Genitive	τῆς βλᾰ́βης tês blắbēs	τοῖν βλᾰ́βαιν toîn blắbain	τῶν βλᾰβῶν tôn blăbôn
Dative	τῇ βλᾰ́βῃ têi blắbēi	τοῖν βλᾰ́βαιν toîn blắbain	ταῖς βλᾰ́βαις taîs blắbais
Accusative	τὴν βλᾰ́βην tḕn blắbēn	τὼ βλᾰ́βᾱ tṑ blắbā	τᾱ̀ς βλᾰ́βᾱς tā̀s blắbās
Vocative	βλᾰ́βη blắbē	βλᾰ́βᾱ blắbā	βλᾰ́βαι blắbai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀβλαβής (ablabḗs)
• βλαβεραυγής (blaberaugḗs)
• βλαβερός (blaberós)
• βλαβόεις (blabóeis)

Related terms

• βλάβος (blábos)
• βλάπτω (bláptō)

Descendants

• Greek: βλάβη (vlávi)

Further reading

• “βλάβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βλάβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βλάβη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βλάβη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βλάβη (blábē).

Noun

βλάβη • (vlávi) f (plural βλάβες)

1. damage, detriment, harm

Declension

Declension of βλάβη

	singular	plural
nominative	βλάβη (vlávi)	βλάβες (vláves)
genitive	βλάβης (vlávis)	βλαβών (vlavón)
accusative	βλάβη (vlávi)	βλάβες (vláves)
vocative	βλάβη (vlávi)	βλάβες (vláves)

Related terms

• βλαβερός (vlaverós, “harmful”, adjective)

Further reading

• βλάβη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el