Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Possibly from Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō, from earlier *plátʰyō, of uncertain origin. Beekes suspects the root to be Pre-Greek, due to its hypothetical quasi-Indo-European form *pldʰ-ye-ti featuring a combination of a plain stop *p and a voiced aspirate *dʰ, which is phonotactically disallowed in Indo-European. However, he does allow that the Greek term became conflated with Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (flat) during the language's development.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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πλάσσω (plássō)

  1. to form, mould, shape, sculpt
    1. to plaster
  2. (figuratively) to form, train a skill
  3. to imagine
  4. to put in a certain form
  5. (figuratively) to fabricate, forge

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: πλάθω (plátho, to create, to form, to shape)

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πλάσσω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1203

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