βλῆχνον
μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοί τῷ πνεύματι ὄτι αὐτῶν ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν → blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3)
English (LSJ)
τό (v.l. βλῆχρον, as in Sch.Theoc.3.14, Cyr. (
A βλήχρα Hsch.)), = πτέρις, male fern, Aspidium Filix-mas, Dsc.4.184.
German (Pape)
[Seite 449] τό, ein Farrenkraut, Diosc. l. d.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
βλῆχνον: τό, εἶδος πτερίδος, Διοσκ. 4. 186.
Spanish (DGE)
v. βλάχνον.
Greek Monolingual
το
βλ. βλέχνο.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: n.
Meaning: male fern, Aspidium Filix-mas.
Other forms: also βλῆχρον (Dsc.), βλήχρα H., also βλᾶχνον (Phan. Hist), βλᾶχρον Η.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: No etymology. S. Rohlfs, Sybaris 124, Sprache 5 (1959) 175 n. 2, Glotta 38 (1959) 103. The variation r\/n not from an r\/n-stem (Poultney, AJPh. 41 (1970) 374), but Pre-Greek: Fur. 388.
