πλατίστακος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, related to the fish name πλάταξ (plátax).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pla.tís.ta.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /plaˈtis.ta.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /plaˈtis.ta.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /plaˈtis.ta.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /plaˈtis.ta.kos/
Noun
πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκος • (plătĭ́stăkos) m (genitive πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κου); second declension
- brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)
- Synonym: μύλλος (múllos)
- kind of fish found in the Nile
- (figuratively) pudendum muliebre
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκος ho plătĭ́stăkos |
τὼ πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κω tṑ plătĭstắkō |
οἱ πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκοι hoi plătĭ́stăkoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κου toû plătĭstắkou |
τοῖν πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κοιν toîn plătĭstắkoin |
τῶν πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κων tôn plătĭstắkōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κῳ tōî plătĭstắkōi |
τοῖν πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κοιν toîn plătĭstắkoin |
τοῖς πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κοις toîs plătĭstắkois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκον tòn plătĭ́stăkon |
τὼ πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κω tṑ plătĭstắkō |
τοὺς πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κους toùs plătĭstắkous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκε plătĭ́stăke |
πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κω plătĭstắkō |
πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκοι plătĭ́stăkoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πλατίστακος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πλατίστακος 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