πλήν
See also: πλην
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach”). Cognate with πέλας (pélas), πλησίος (plēsíos), ἔμπλην (émplēn, “near, close by”) and many more in root page.
Compare the meaning and history of English besides.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ple̝n/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /plin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /plin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /plin/
Preposition edit
πλήν • (plḗn) (governs the genitive)
Conjunction edit
πλήν • (plḗn)
- except, save
- (with single words and phrases, especially when a negative precedes)
- (often joined with other particles)
- (introducing a clause)
- (to break off and pass to another subject) only
- (late prose)
- (with single words and phrases, especially when a negative precedes)
Derived terms edit
- ἔμπλην (émplēn)
Descendants edit
- Greek: πλην (plin)
References edit
- “πλήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πλήν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πλήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πλήν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4133 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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