Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Usually connected with Latin plangō (I beat, strike), Dutch vloeken (to curse, swear) and πλήσσω (plḗssō, to strike, smite). It is not evident at all that the meaning "to drive off course" derives from "to beat"; rather πλήσσω (plḗssō) and this verb influenced each other both formally and semantically. Van Beek suggests that this verb is related to ἀμπλακεῖν (amplakeîn, to miss, fail, come short of) as a Pre-Greek word, to which πλάγιος (plágios, aslant) may perhaps also be connected.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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πλᾰ́ζω (plázō) (poetic)

  1. (transitive) to turn away from
  2. to bewilder, dull the mind
  3. (passive voice) to wander, roam

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Further reading

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  • πλάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • πλάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • πλάζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • πλάζω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • πλάζω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • πλάζω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • 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