πλάστιγξ
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
The etymological base of the word is not clear. Formally, there is no reason to disconnect the word from πλάσσω (plássō, “to knead, mold”), but this linkage is not evident on the semantic side. The same holds true for the connection with πλατύς (platús, “flat”). In view of the suffix -ιγγ-, it therefore seems better to assume a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plás.tiŋks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈplas.tiŋks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈplas.tiŋks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈplas.tiŋks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈplas.tiŋks/
Noun edit
πλᾰ́στῐγξ • (plástinx) f (genitive πλᾰ́στῐγγος); third declension
- scale of a balance
- disk poised on the top of the rhabdus, in the game of cottabus
- (zoology) valve of an oyster shell
- collar for horses
- (in the plural) surgical splints
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πλᾰ́στῐγξ hē plástinx |
τὼ πλᾰ́στῐγγε tṑ plástinge |
αἱ πλᾰ́στῐγγες hai plástinges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πλᾰ́στῐγγος tês plástingos |
τοῖν πλᾰστῐ́γγοιν toîn plastíngoin |
τῶν πλᾰστῐ́γγων tôn plastíngōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πλᾰ́στῐγγῐ têi plástingi |
τοῖν πλᾰστῐ́γγοιν toîn plastíngoin |
ταῖς πλᾰ́στῐγξῐ / πλᾰ́στῐγξῐν taîs plástinxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πλᾰ́στῐγγᾰ tḕn plástinga |
τὼ πλᾰ́στῐγγε tṑ plástinge |
τᾱ̀ς πλᾰ́στῐγγᾰς tā̀s plástingas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλᾰ́στῐγξ plástinx |
πλᾰ́στῐγγε plástinge |
πλᾰ́στῐγγες plástinges | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- πλαστίγγιον (plastíngion)
Further reading edit
- “πλάστιγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλάστιγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλάστιγξ 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