πλάδος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πλάδη (pládē)
Etymology
Unclear word, found especially in medical literature. It has been derived from Proto-Indo-European *peld-, like Latvian peldēt (“to swim”) and Lithuanian peldėti (“to swim”). Alternatively, Beekes considers a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plá.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpla.dos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpla.ðos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpla.ðos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpla.ðos/
Noun
πλάδος • (pládos) m (genitive πλάδου); second declension
- moisture, abundance of fluids
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ πλᾰ́δος; τοῦ πλᾰ́δου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πλᾰ́δος ho pládos | τὼ πλᾰ́δω tṑ pládō | οἱ πλᾰ́δοι hoi pládoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλᾰ́δου toû pládou | τοῖν πλᾰ́δοιν toîn pládoin | τῶν πλᾰ́δων tôn pládōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλᾰ́δῳ tôi pládōi | τοῖν πλᾰ́δοιν toîn pládoin | τοῖς πλᾰ́δοις toîs pládois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πλᾰ́δον tòn pládon | τὼ πλᾰ́δω tṑ pládō | τοὺς πλᾰ́δους toùs pládous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλᾰ́δε pláde | πλᾰ́δω pládō | πλᾰ́δοι pládoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πλαδαρός (pladarós)
- πλαδάω (pladáō)
- πλάδησις (pládēsis)
- πλαδόεις (pladóeis)
- πλαδώδης (pladṓdēs)
- πλάδωσις (pládōsis)
Further reading
- πλάδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πλάδος 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