Πλάτων

See also: πλατών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide (either because of Plato's robust body, or wide forehead or the breadth of his eloquence)”) +‎ -ων (-ōn, suffix nominalizing adjectives, the "Strabon Suffix").

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Πλᾰ́των • (Plắtōn) m (genitive Πλᾰ́τωνος); third declension

  1. Plato

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Πλᾰ́των; τοῦ Πλᾰ́τωνος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Πλᾰ́των
ho Plắtōn
Genitive τοῦ Πλᾰ́τωνος
toû Plắtōnos
Dative τῷ Πλᾰ́τωνῐ
tōî Plắtōnĭ
Accusative τὸν Πλᾰ́τωνᾰ
tòn Plắtōnă
Vocative Πλᾰ́των
Plắtōn
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • Πλατωνικός (Platōnikós)
  • Πλατωνισμός (Platōnismós)

Descendants

Further reading

  • “Πλάτων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Πλάτων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022
  • Πλάτων, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn, “Plato”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈplaton]
  • Hyphenation: Πλά‧των

Proper noun

Πλάτων • (Pláton) m

  1. Plato (classical philosopher)
    Synonym: Πλάτωνας (Plátonas)
  2. a male given name, equivalent to English Platon

Declension

Declension of Πλάτων
singular
nominative Πλάτων (Pláton)
genitive Πλάτωνος (Plátonos)
accusative Πλάτωνα (Plátona)
vocative Πλάτων (Pláton)

Derived terms

  • πλατωνικός (platonikós, “Platonic”, adjective)
  • πλατωνισμός m (platonismós, “Platonism”)

Further reading

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