πλάσσω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • πλάττω (pláttō)Attic

Etymology

    Possibly from Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō, from earlier *plátʰyō, of uncertain origin. Beekes suspects the root to be Pre-Greek, due to its hypothetical quasi-Indo-European form *pldʰ-ye-ti featuring a combination of a plain stop *p and a voiced aspirate *dʰ, which is phonotactically disallowed in Indo-European. However, he does allow that the Greek term became conflated with Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (flat) during the language's development.[1]

    Pronunciation

     

    Verb

    πλάσσω • (plássō)

    1. to form, mould, shape, sculpt
      1. to plaster
    2. (figuratively) to form, train a skill
    3. to imagine
    4. to put in a certain form
    5. (figuratively) to fabricate, forge

    Inflection

    Derived terms

    • ἀμφῐπλάσσω (amphĭplássō)
    • ἀνᾰπλάσσω (anăplássō)
    • ἀποπλάσσομαι (apoplássomai)
    • δῐᾰπλάσσω (dĭăplássō)
    • ἐκπλάσσω (ekplássō)
    • ἐμπλάσσω (emplássō)
    • ἐπῐπλάσσω (epĭplássō)
    • ἰπνοπλάθος (ipnopláthos)
    • κᾰτᾰπλάσσω (kătăplássō)
    • κοροπλάθος (koropláthos)
    • λογοπλάθος (logopláthos)
    • μετᾰπλάσσω (metăplássō)
    • πᾰρᾰπλάσσω (părăplássō)
    • περιπλάσσω (periplássō)
    • πηλοπλάθος (pēlopláthos)
    • προπλάσσω (proplássō)
    • προσπλάσσω (prosplássō)
    • σῠμπλάσσω (sŭmplássō)
    • ὑποπλάσσω (hupoplássō)
    • χυτροπλάθος (khutropláthos)

    Descendants

    • Greek: πλάθω (plátho, to create, to form, to shape)

    References

    1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πλάσσω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1203

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