πλοῦτος
See also: πλούτος and Πλοῦτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of πλέω (pléō, “float, sail”) (perhaps in some early meaning of "flow" > "abound") with the suffix -τος (-tos); compare βίοτος (bíotos), νόστος (nóstos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plûː.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈplu.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈplu.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈplu.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈplu.tos/
Noun
πλοῦτος • (ploûtos) m (genitive πλούτου); second declension
πλοῦτος • (ploûtos) n (genitive πλούτους); third declension
- wealth, riches
- Synonym: ἄφενος (áphenos)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.171:
- οὐδέ σ’ ὀΐω […] ἄφενος καὶ πλοῦτον ἀφύξειν.
- oudé s’ oḯō […] áphenos kaì ploûton aphúxein.
- nor do I intend […] to pile up riches and wealth for you.
- οὐδέ σ’ ὀΐω […] ἄφενος καὶ πλοῦτον ἀφύξειν.
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 523c:
- πολλοὶ οὖν,” ἦ δ’ ὅς, “ψυχὰς πονηρὰς ἔχοντες ἠμφιεσμένοι εἰσὶ […] πλούτους
- polloì oûn,” ê d’ hós, “psukhàs ponēràs ékhontes ēmphiesménoi eisì […] ploútous
- “Now many,” said he, “who have wicked souls are clad in […] wealth
- πολλοὶ οὖν,” ἦ δ’ ὅς, “ψυχὰς πονηρὰς ἔχοντες ἠμφιεσμένοι εἰσὶ […] πλούτους
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ πλοῦτος; τοῦ πλούτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πλοῦτος ho ploûtos | τὼ πλούτω tṑ ploútō | οἱ πλοῦτοι hoi ploûtoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλούτου toû ploútou | τοῖν πλούτοιν toîn ploútoin | τῶν πλούτων tôn ploútōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλούτῳ tôi ploútōi | τοῖν πλούτοιν toîn ploútoin | τοῖς πλούτοις toîs ploútois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πλοῦτον tòn ploûton | τὼ πλούτω tṑ ploútō | τοὺς πλούτους toùs ploútous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλοῦτε ploûte | πλούτω ploútō | πλοῦτοι ploûtoi | ||||||||||
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Third declension of τὸ πλοῦτος; τοῦ πλούτους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πλοῦτος tò ploûtos | τὼ πλούτει tṑ ploútei | τᾰ̀ πλούτη tà ploútē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλούτους toû ploútous | τοῖν πλουτοῖν toîn ploutoîn | τῶν πλουτῶν tôn ploutôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλούτει tôi ploútei | τοῖν πλουτοῖν toîn ploutoîn | τοῖς πλούτεσῐ / πλούτεσῐν toîs ploútesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πλοῦτος tò ploûtos | τὼ πλούτει tṑ ploútei | τᾰ̀ πλούτη tà ploútē | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλοῦτος ploûtos | πλούτει ploútei | πλούτη ploútē | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- πενία (penía)
Derived terms
- ἁβρόπλουτος (habróploutos)
- ᾰ̓́πλουτος (áploutos)
- ἀρτίπλουτος (artíploutos)
- ἀρχαιόπλουτος (arkhaióploutos)
- βᾰθύπλουτος (bathúploutos)
- βᾰρύπλουτος (barúploutos)
- ζάπλουτος (záploutos)
- καλλίπλουτος (kallíploutos)
- κᾰτᾰπλουτῐ́ζω (kataploutízō)
- κᾰτᾰπλουτομᾰχέω (kataploutomakhéō)
- λᾰκκόπλουτος (lakkóploutos)
- μεγᾰλόπλουτος (megalóploutos)
- μεσόπλουτος (mesóploutos)
- νεόπλουτος (neóploutos)
- ὀλβιόπλουτος (olbióploutos)
- πᾰλαιόπλουτος (palaióploutos)
- πάμπλουτος (pámploutos)
- Πλούταρχος (Ploútarkhos)
- πλούταρχος (ploútarkhos)
- πλουτογᾱθής (ploutogāthḗs)
- πλουτοδότης (ploutodótēs)
- πλουτοκρᾰτέομαι (ploutokratéomai)
- πλουτοποιός (ploutopoiós)
- πλουτοτρᾰφής (ploutotraphḗs)
- πλουτοφόρος (ploutophóros)
- πλουτόχθων (ploutókhthōn)
- σαπρόπλουτος (sapróploutos)
- σῠοπλουτοσῠ́νη (suoploutosúnē)
- ῠ̔πέρπλουτος (hupérploutos)
- ῠ̔πόπλουτος (hupóploutos)
- φῐλόπλουτος (philóploutos)
- ψευδόπλουτος (pseudóploutos)
Related terms
- πλέω (pléō, “float, sail”)
- πλούσιος (ploúsios), πλουσιακός (plousiakós)
- πλούτᾱξ (ploútāx), πλούτᾱκος (ploútākos, “a rich fool”)
- Πλουτεύς (Plouteús)
- πλουτέω (ploutéō), πλουσιάω (plousiáō, “to be rich”)
- πλουτηρός (ploutērós)
- πλουτῐ́ζω (ploutízō, “to make rich, enrich”)
- πλουτίνδην (ploutíndēn, “according to property”)
- Πλοῦτος (Ploûtos)
- Πλούτων (Ploútōn)
Descendants
- Greek: πλούτος (ploútos)
Further reading
- “πλοῦτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλοῦτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πλοῦτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πλοῦτος 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
- πλοῦτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πλοῦτος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4149 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- πλοῦτος 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.
- affluence idem, page 17.
- cash idem, page 116.
- fortune idem, page 340.
- luxury idem, page 506.
- mammon idem, page 510.
- money idem, page 539.
- opulence idem, page 577.
- pelf idem, page 602.
- plutus idem, page 622.
- riches idem, page 712.
- treasure idem, page 891.
- wealth idem, page 970.