πλάτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂os (“breadth”). Cognates include Sanskrit प्रथस् (práthas), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬀𐬵 (fraθah), Old Armenian լայն (layn), Welsh lled. See also πλατύς (platús, “wide”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plá.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpla.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpla.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpla.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpla.tos/
Noun
πλᾰ́τος • (plátos) n (genitive πλᾰ́τους or πλᾰ́τεος); third declension
- breadth, width
- (astronomy) celestial latitude, declination
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ πλᾰ́τος; τοῦ πλᾰ́τους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πλᾰ́τος tò plátos | τὼ πλᾰ́τει tṑ plátei | τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́τη tà plátē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλᾰ́τους toû plátous | τοῖν πλᾰτοῖν toîn platoîn | τῶν πλᾰτῶν tôn platôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλᾰ́τει tôi plátei | τοῖν πλᾰτοῖν toîn platoîn | τοῖς πλᾰ́τεσῐ / πλᾰ́τεσῐν toîs plátesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πλᾰ́τος tò plátos | τὼ πλᾰ́τει tṑ plátei | τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́τη tà plátē | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλᾰ́τος plátos | πλᾰ́τει plátei | πλᾰ́τη plátē | ||||||||||
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Third declension of τὸ πλᾰ́τος; τοῦ πλᾰ́τεος (Ionic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πλᾰ́τος tò plátos | τὼ πλᾰ́τει / πλᾰ́τεε tṑ plátei / plátee | τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́τεᾰ tà plátea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλᾰ́τεος / πλᾰ́τευς toû pláteos / pláteus | τοῖν πλᾰτέοιν toîn platéoin | τῶν πλᾰτέων tôn platéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλᾰ́τει / πλᾰ́τεῐ̈ tôi plátei / pláteï | τοῖν πλᾰτέοιν toîn platéoin | τοῖσῐ / τοῖσῐν πλᾰ́τεσῐ / πλᾰ́τεσῐν toîsi(n) plátesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πλᾰ́τος tò plátos | τὼ πλᾰ́τει / πλᾰ́τεε tṑ plátei / plátee | τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́τεᾰ tà plátea | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλᾰ́τος plátos | πλᾰ́τει / πλᾰ́τεε plátei / plátee | πλᾰ́τεᾰ plátea | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- εὖρος (eûros)
References
- “πλάτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλάτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλάτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4114 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- πλάτος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- area idem, page 39.
- breadth idem, page 94.
- broadness idem, page 100.
- width idem, page 978.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πλάτος (plátos).
Noun
πλάτος • (plátos) n (plural πλάτη)
- (mathematics) width, breadth
Declension
declension of πλάτος
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | πλάτος • | πλάτη • |
genitive | πλάτους • | πλατών • |
accusative | πλάτος • | πλάτη • |
vocative | πλάτος • | πλάτη • |
Derived terms
- γεωγραφικό πλάτος n (geografikó plátos, “latitude”)
See also
- μήκος n (míkos, “length”)
- ύψος n (ýpsos, “height”)