πλάθανον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-, with laryngeal aspiration. Beekes claims that it is Pre-Greek, and related to πλάσσω (plássō, “to mold, shape”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plá.tʰa.non/ → /ˈpla.θa.non/ → /ˈpla.θa.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /plá.tʰa.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.tʰa.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.θa.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.θa.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.θa.non/

Noun

πλᾰ́θᾰνον • (pláthanon) n (genitive πλᾰθᾰ́νου); second declension

1. dish or mold in which bread and cakes were baked

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πλᾰ́θᾰνον; τοῦ πλᾰθᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πλᾰ́θᾰνον tò pláthanon	τὼ πλᾰθᾰ́νω tṑ plathánō	τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́θᾰνᾰ tà pláthana
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰθᾰ́νου toû plathánou	τοῖν πλᾰθᾰ́νοιν toîn plathánoin	τῶν πλᾰθᾰ́νων tôn plathánōn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰθᾰ́νῳ tôi plathánōi	τοῖν πλᾰθᾰ́νοιν toîn plathánoin	τοῖς πλᾰθᾰ́νοις toîs plathánois
Accusative	τὸ πλᾰ́θᾰνον tò pláthanon	τὼ πλᾰθᾰ́νω tṑ plathánō	τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́θᾰνᾰ tà pláthana
Vocative	πλᾰ́θᾰνον pláthanon	πλᾰθᾰ́νω plathánō	πλᾰ́θᾰνᾰ pláthana
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πλαθανίτης (plathanítēs)

Further reading

• “πλάθανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλάθανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλάθανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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