phlebotomus

See also: Phlebotomus

English

Noun

phlebotomus

1. A sandfly of genus Phlebotomus.

Latin

Alternative forms

• flebotomus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φλεβότομος (phlebótomos, “opening veins”), from φλέψ (phléps, “blood vessel”) +‎ τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) +‎ -ος (-os, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʰɫɛˈbɔ.tɔ.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fleˈbɔː.to.mus]

Noun

phlebotomus m (genitive phlebotomī); second declension

1. Lancet, fleam.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	phlebotomus	phlebotomī
genitive	phlebotomī	phlebotomōrum
dative	phlebotomō	phlebotomīs
accusative	phlebotomum	phlebotomōs
ablative	phlebotomō	phlebotomīs
vocative	phlebotome	phlebotomī

Descendants

• Catalan: fleuma
• Old French: flieme
  • French: flamme
  • → Middle Dutch: vlime
    • Dutch: vlijm (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle English: fleme
    • English: fleam
    • → Welsh: fflaim
• Occitan: flecme
  • → Spanish: fleme
• → Proto-West Germanic: *flētimā (see there for further descendants)

References

• “phlebotomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fleme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “phlebotomus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume