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βλέννα

blenna

[f

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What it meant

1. βλέννᾶ · blenna — Beekes

βλέννᾶ [f.] ‘mucous discharge, μύξα᾽ (Hp.). < PG(V)> eVAR Also βλέννος [n.] (Arist.); πλένναι: μύξαι H; βλένα- μύξα. οἱ δὲ δία τοῦ π πλένα καὶ πλέννα τὰ ἀσθενῆ καὶ δυσκίνητα H; πλεννεραί = μυξώδεις (Ηρ. apud Gal. 19, 131). πληνώδης: ἀσθενὴς (H.) is perhaps to be read mAev(v)-, Fur. 144. eDER βλεννώδης ‘slimy, mucous’ (Hp.). Also βλεν(ν)ός ‘id., idiot’ (Epich.), and (with regular retraction of the accent) βλέννος … — [Beekes, s.v. βλέννᾶ, p. 266]

2. βλέννα · blenna — Chantraine

βλέννα : f. «morve» (Hp.), le mot plus usuel étant μύξα ; βλέννος n. ebave» (Arist.). D'où βλεννώδης «Ῥανουχ, visqueux » (Hp., Arist.). Et, parallèlement l'adj. βλεννός « qui bave, idiot », cf. AB 85,24, βλεννὸν τὸν νωθῇ χαὶ μωρὸν Σώφρων (fr. 51) καὶ ᾿Επίχαρμος (fr. 119) ; d'où avec dépiacement d’accent βλέννος «poisson baveur, blennie » {Sophr., Opp.), petit poisson qui vit dans les creux de rocher, ainsi nommé en … — [Chantraine, s.v. βλέννα, p. 193]

3. βλέννα · blenna — LSJ

mucous discharge, ‘phlegm’

= μύξα, mucous discharge, Hp. Mul. 1.58 (pl.); of the humour ‘phlegm’, Prodic. 4, etc.

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