πλάξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From earlier *plk-s, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), sharing several Germanic cognates with Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”); more at English flake.
Noun
πλάξ • (pláx) f (genitive πλακός); third declension
- anything flat and broad
- esp. flat land, plain, the ocean surface
- flat stone, tablet
- tombstone, slab (e.g. of marble)
- plate
- (pl) flaps, tail fins (e.g. of crustaceans)
References
- πλάξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πλάξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πλάξ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4109 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- 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