πλεύμων
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πνεύμων (pneúmōn)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō. Cognates include Sanskrit क्लोमन् (klóman), Latin pulmō and Old Church Slavonic плюща (pljušta).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plěu̯.mɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈplew.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpleβ.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈplev.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈplev.mon/
Noun
πλεύμων • (pleúmōn) m (genitive πλεύμονος); third declension
- (usually in the plural) lung
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ πλεύμων; τοῦ πλεύμονος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πλεύμων ho pleúmōn | τὼ πλεύμονε tṑ pleúmone | οἱ πλεύμονες hoi pleúmones | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλεύμονος toû pleúmonos | τοῖν πλευμόνοιν toîn pleumónoin | τῶν πλευμόνων tôn pleumónōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλεύμονῐ tôi pleúmoni | τοῖν πλευμόνοιν toîn pleumónoin | τοῖς πλεύμοσῐ / πλεύμοσῐν toîs pleúmosi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πλεύμονᾰ tòn pleúmona | τὼ πλεύμονε tṑ pleúmone | τοὺς πλεύμονᾰς toùs pleúmonas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλεῦμον pleûmon | πλεύμονε pleúmone | πλεύμονες pleúmones | ||||||||||
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References
- “πλεύμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλεύμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλεύμων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- lung idem, page 505.