πλήμνη
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editTraditionally associated with πίμπλημι (pímplēmi, “to fill”), but this is popular etymology. Beekes preferably derives it from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”), the same root of πόλος (pólos, “axis, pole”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plɛ̌ːm.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈple̝m.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈplim.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈplim.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈplim.ni/
Noun
editπλήμνη • (plḗmnē) f (genitive πλήμνης); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πλήμνη hē plḗmnē |
τὼ πλήμνᾱ tṑ plḗmnā |
αἱ πλῆμναι hai plêmnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πλήμνης tês plḗmnēs |
τοῖν πλήμναιν toîn plḗmnain |
τῶν πλημνῶν tôn plēmnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πλήμνῃ têi plḗmnēi |
τοῖν πλήμναιν toîn plḗmnain |
ταῖς πλήμναις taîs plḗmnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πλήμνην tḕn plḗmnēn |
τὼ πλήμνᾱ tṑ plḗmnā |
τᾱ̀ς πλήμνᾱς tā̀s plḗmnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλήμνη plḗmnē |
πλήμνᾱ plḗmnā |
πλῆμναι plêmnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- πλημνόδετον (plēmnódeton)
Descendants
edit- Greek: πλήμνη (plímni)
Further reading
edit- “πλήμνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλήμνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλήμνη 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
Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek πλήμνη (plḗmnē).
Noun
editπλήμνη • (plímni) f
- hub (of a wheel)
Declension
editDeclension of πλήμνη
Synonyms
edit- αφαλός m (afalós) (the more common term)
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek feminine nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'κόρη'