πλάξ
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Hellenic *pləks, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”), sharing cognates with several Germanic languages through Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”); more at English flake.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pláks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /plaks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /plaks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /plaks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /plaks/
Noun edit
πλάξ • (pláx) f (genitive πλᾰκός); third declension
- anything flat and broad
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πλᾰ́ξ hē pláx |
τὼ πλᾰ́κε tṑ pláke |
αἱ πλᾰ́κες hai plákes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πλᾰκός tês plakós |
τοῖν πλᾰκοῖν toîn plakoîn |
τῶν πλᾰκῶν tôn plakôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πλᾰκῐ́ têi plakí |
τοῖν πλᾰκοῖν toîn plakoîn |
ταῖς πλᾰξῐ́ / πλᾰξῐ́ν taîs plaxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πλᾰ́κᾰ tḕn pláka |
τὼ πλᾰ́κε tṑ pláke |
τᾱ̀ς πλᾰ́κᾰς tā̀s plákas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλᾰ́ξ pláx |
πλᾰ́κε pláke |
πλᾰ́κες plákes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “πλάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πλάξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4109 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- πλάξ - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.