πλήμη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πλήμμη (plḗmmē)
• πλήσμη (plḗsmē)

Etymology

From πίμπλημι (pímplēmi, “to fill, make full”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plɛ̌ː.mɛː/ → /ˈpli.mi/ → /ˈpli.mi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /plɛ̌ː.mɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈple̝.me̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpli.mi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpli.mi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpli.mi/

Noun

πλήμη • (plḗmē) f (genitive πλήμης); first declension

1. flood tide

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πλήμη; τῆς πλήμης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πλήμη hē plḗmē	τὼ πλήμᾱ tṑ plḗmā	αἱ πλῆμαι hai plêmai
Genitive	τῆς πλήμης tês plḗmēs	τοῖν πλήμαιν toîn plḗmain	τῶν πλημῶν tôn plēmôn
Dative	τῇ πλήμῃ têi plḗmēi	τοῖν πλήμαιν toîn plḗmain	ταῖς πλήμαις taîs plḗmais
Accusative	τὴν πλήμην tḕn plḗmēn	τὼ πλήμᾱ tṑ plḗmā	τᾱ̀ς πλήμᾱς tā̀s plḗmās
Vocative	πλήμη plḗmē	πλήμᾱ plḗmā	πλῆμαι plêmai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πλημοχόη (plēmokhóē)

References

• “πλήμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πλήμη 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