ψύλλα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *plusy(e)h₂ (“flea”) by metathesis. Cognates include Latin pūlex, Sanskrit प्लुषि (plúṣi), Old Armenian լու (lu), Old English flēah, flēa (English flea).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ψῠ́λλᾰ • (psúlla) f (genitive ψῠ́λλης); first declension

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

Inflection
First declension of ἡ ψῠ́λλᾰ; τῆς ψῠ́λλης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ψῠ́λλᾰ
hē psúlla		 τὼ ψῠ́λλᾱ
tṑ psúllā		 αἱ ψῠ́λλαι
hai psúllai
Genitive τῆς ψῠ́λλης
tês psúllēs		 τοῖν ψῠ́λλαιν
toîn psúllain		 τῶν ψῠλλῶν
tôn psullôn
Dative τῇ ψῠ́λλῃ
têi psúllēi		 τοῖν ψῠ́λλαιν
toîn psúllain		 ταῖς ψῠ́λλαις
taîs psúllais
Accusative τὴν ψῠ́λλᾰν
tḕn psúllan		 τὼ ψῠ́λλᾱ
tṑ psúllā		 τᾱ̀ς ψῠ́λλᾱς
tā̀s psúllās
Vocative ψῠ́λλᾰ
psúlla		 ψῠ́λλᾱ
psúllā		 ψῠ́λλαι
psúllai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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
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