πλῆκτρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”) + -τρον (-tron).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plɛ̂ːk.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈple̝k.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈplik.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈplik.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈplik.tron/
Noun
πλῆκτρον • (plêktron) n (genitive πλήκτρου); second declension
- (music) plectrum (tool for striking the lyre)
- spur
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ πλῆκτρον; τοῦ πλήκτρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πλῆκτρον tò plêktron | τὼ πλήκτρω tṑ plḗktrō | τᾰ̀ πλῆκτρᾰ tà plêktra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλήκτρου toû plḗktrou | τοῖν πλήκτροιν toîn plḗktroin | τῶν πλήκτρων tôn plḗktrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλήκτρῳ tôi plḗktrōi | τοῖν πλήκτροιν toîn plḗktroin | τοῖς πλήκτροις toîs plḗktrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πλῆκτρον tò plêktron | τὼ πλήκτρω tṑ plḗktrō | τᾰ̀ πλῆκτρᾰ tà plêktra | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλῆκτρον plêktron | πλήκτρω plḗktrō | πλῆκτρᾰ plêktra | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: πλήκτρο (plíktro)
- → Latin: plēctrum
- → English: plectrum
- → French: plectre
- → Italian: plettro
- → Portuguese: plectro
- → Spanish: plectro
Further reading
- “πλῆκτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλῆκτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλῆκτρον 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.
- spur idem, page 806.