φλέψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally linked to a large group of words beginning with "φλ-", like φλέω (phléō), φλύω (phlúō) and φλύκταινα (phlúktaina). It has been supposed to be an enlargement in -gʷ- of Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell”), but this would not solve anything. Thus, a Pre-Greek origin is the most probable hypothesis.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰléps/ → /ɸleps/ → /fleps/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰléps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰleps/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸleps/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fleps/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fleps/

Noun

φλέψ • (phléps) f (genitive φλεβός); third declension

1. (anatomy) vein
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.546

Declension

Third declension of ἡ φλέψ; τῆς φλεβός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φλέψ hē phléps	τὼ φλέβε tṑ phlébe	αἱ φλέβες hai phlébes
Genitive	τῆς φλεβός tês phlebós	τοῖν φλεβοῖν toîn phleboîn	τῶν φλεβῶν tôn phlebôn
Dative	τῇ φλεβῐ́ têi phlebí	τοῖν φλεβοῖν toîn phleboîn	ταῖς φλεψῐ́ / φλεψῐ́ν taîs phlepsí(n)
Accusative	τὴν φλέβᾰ tḕn phléba	τὼ φλέβε tṑ phlébe	τᾱ̀ς φλέβᾰς tā̀s phlébas
Vocative	φλέψ phléps	φλέβε phlébe	φλέβες phlébes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐπίφλεβος (epíphlebos)
• φλεβικός (phlebikós)
• φλέβιον (phlébion)
• φλεβοδονώδης (phlebodonṓdēs)
• φλεβονευρώδης (phleboneurṓdēs)
• φλεβονώδης (phlebonṓdēs)
• φλεβοπαλία (phlebopalía)
• φλεβοπεριμέτριος (phleboperimétrios)
• φλεβορραγία (phleborrhagía)
• φλεβόσφυγμος (phlebósphugmos)
• φλεβοτμής (phlebotmḗs)
• φλεβοτομέω (phlebotoméō)
• φλεβοτονέομαι (phlebotonéomai)
• φλεβώδης (phlebṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• English: phlebo-
• Greek: φλέβα (fléva)

Further reading

• “φλέψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φλέψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φλέψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• φλέψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• φλέψ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • pulse idem, page 657.
  • vein idem, page 946.
• 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