πλακοῦς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Substantivization and contraction of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pla.kûːs/ → /plaˈkus/ → /plaˈkus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pla.kûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /plaˈkus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /plaˈkus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /plaˈkus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /plaˈkus/

Noun

πλᾰκοῦς • (plakoûs) m (genitive πλᾰκοῦντος); third declension

1. flat cake

Declension

Third declension of ὁ πλᾰκοῦς; τοῦ πλᾰκοῦντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πλᾰκοῦς ho plakoûs	τὼ πλᾰκοῦντε tṑ plakoûnte	οἱ πλᾰκοῦντες hoi plakoûntes
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰκοῦντος toû plakoûntos	τοῖν πλᾰκούντοιν toîn plakoúntoin	τῶν πλᾰκούντων tôn plakoúntōn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰκοῦντῐ tôi plakoûnti	τοῖν πλᾰκούντοιν toîn plakoúntoin	τοῖς πλᾰκοῦσῐ / πλᾰκοῦσῐν toîs plakoûsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν πλᾰκοῦντᾰ tòn plakoûnta	τὼ πλᾰκοῦντε tṑ plakoûnte	τοὺς πλᾰκοῦντᾰς toùs plakoûntas
Vocative	πλᾰκοῦν plakoûn	πλᾰκοῦντε plakoûnte	πλᾰκοῦντες plakoûntes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: πλακούντας (plakoúntas)
• → English: plakous
• → Latin: placenta (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• πλακοῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πλακοῦς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “πλακοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cake idem, page 108.