πλάθανον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-, with laryngeal aspiration. Beekes claims that it is Pre-Greek, and related to πλάσσω (plássō, “to mold, shape”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plá.tʰa.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpla.tʰa.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpla.θa.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpla.θa.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpla.θa.non/
Noun
πλᾰ́θᾰνον • (plắthănon) n (genitive πλᾰθᾰ́νου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ πλᾰ́θᾰνον tò plắthănon |
τὼ πλᾰθᾰ́νω tṑ plăthắnō |
τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́θᾰνᾰ tằ plắthănă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πλᾰθᾰ́νου toû plăthắnou |
τοῖν πλᾰθᾰ́νοιν toîn plăthắnoin |
τῶν πλᾰθᾰ́νων tôn plăthắnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πλᾰθᾰ́νῳ tōî plăthắnōi |
τοῖν πλᾰθᾰ́νοιν toîn plăthắnoin |
τοῖς πλᾰθᾰ́νοις toîs plăthắnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ πλᾰ́θᾰνον tò plắthănon |
τὼ πλᾰθᾰ́νω tṑ plăthắnō |
τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́θᾰνᾰ tằ plắthănă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πλᾰ́θᾰνον plắthănon |
πλᾰθᾰ́νω plăthắnō |
πλᾰ́θᾰνᾰ plắthănă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πλαθανίτης (plathanítēs)
Further reading
- “πλάθανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλάθανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλάθανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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, →ISBN