The corpus record

βδέλλ-ᾰ

bdella

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Where it lives

Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

1. βδέλλα · bdella — Frisk

βδέλλα f. “Blutegel’ (ion. att.), auch = βδέλλιον (spät). — Denominative Verba: βδελλίζω “Blutegel ansetzen’ (Mediz.), βδελλάζεται' ἀμέλγεται Erot. βδέλλα ist eine feminine ıd-Ableitung, ,,416 Saugerin“‘, u. z. entweder von der hochstufigen Verbalwurzel ßöe4- oder von einem unbekannten Wurzelnomen. Vgl. βδάλλω, auch βλέτυες. — [Frisk, s.v. βδέλλα, p. 259]

2. βδέλλ-ᾰ · bdell-a — LSJ

leech

leech, Hdt. 2.68, Arist. IA 709a29, Theoc. 2.56, Nic. Al. 500, LXX Pr. 24.50 (30.15): metaph., β. σπιλάδων, of a fisherman, AP 6.193 (Flacc.).

2 lamprey

lamprey, Str. 17.3.4.

= βδέλλιον, J. AJ 3.1.6, Peripl.M.Rubr. 37, al., Edict.Diocl. 32.54, Damocr. ap. Gal. 14.129, PMag.Berol. 1.286, PMag.Leid.V. 12.24.

In the wild

βδελλέων · bdelleōn Herodotus, Histories 2.68.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2032)
βδέλλας · bdellas Herodotus, Histories 2.68.5 (DIORISIS sentence 2034)
βδέλλῃ · bdellēi Septuaginta, Proverbia 30 (DIORISIS sentence 544)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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