πλοῖον
See also: πλοίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the o-grade of the root of πλέω (pléō, “to sail”) + -ιον (-ion), or inherited directly from Proto-Indo-European *plówyom (“floating vessel”): compare Proto-Germanic *flawją.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plôi̯.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈply.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈply.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈply.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpli.on/
Noun
πλοῖον • (ploîon) n (genitive πλοίου); second declension
- a floating vessel, ship, boat
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.168
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 601
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 625
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.36
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.83
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.1.20
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.48
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.30
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.14
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.21
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 13.78
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.116
- 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 295D
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 106
Declension
Second declension of τὸ πλοῖον; τοῦ πλοίου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πλοῖον tò ploîon | τὼ πλοίω tṑ ploíō | τᾰ̀ πλοῖᾰ tà ploîa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλοίου toû ploíou | τοῖν πλοίοιν toîn ploíoin | τῶν πλοίων tôn ploíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλοίῳ tôi ploíōi | τοῖν πλοίοιν toîn ploíoin | τοῖς πλοίοις toîs ploíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πλοῖον tò ploîon | τὼ πλοίω tṑ ploíō | τᾰ̀ πλοῖᾰ tà ploîa | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλοῖον ploîon | πλοίω ploíō | πλοῖᾰ ploîa | ||||||||||
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Second declension of τὸ πλοῖον; τοῦ πλοίου (Ionic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πλοῖον tò ploîon | τὼ πλοίω tṑ ploíō | τᾰ̀ πλοῖᾰ tà ploîa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλοίου toû ploíou | τοῖν πλοίοιν toîn ploíoin | τῶν πλοίων tôn ploíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλοίῳ tôi ploíōi | τοῖν πλοίοιν toîn ploíoin | τοῖσῐ / τοῖσῐν πλοίοισῐ / πλοίοισῐν / πλοίοις toîsi(n) ploíoisi(n) / ploíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πλοῖον tò ploîon | τὼ πλοίω tṑ ploíō | τᾰ̀ πλοῖᾰ tà ploîa | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλοῖον ploîon | πλοίω ploíō | πλοῖᾰ ploîa | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: πλοίο (ploío)
Further reading
- “πλοῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλοῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- G4143 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- πλοῖον 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.
- bark idem, page 63.
- boat idem, page 87.
- coracle idem, page 174.
- ship idem, page 766.
- skiff idem, page 780.
- smack idem, page 786.
- tonnage idem, page 880.
- vessel idem, page 949.