πλεονασμός
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”) + -μός (-mós).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ple.o.naz.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ple.o.nazˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ple.o.nazˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ple.o.nazˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ple.o.nazˈmos/
Noun
editπλεονασμός • (pleonasmós) m (genitive πλεονασμοῦ); second declension
- superabundance, excess
- surplus
- usury
- pleonasm (use of redundant words)
- lengthening of clause
- repetition
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πλεονᾰσμός ho pleonasmós |
τὼ πλεονᾰσμώ tṑ pleonasmṓ |
οἱ πλεονᾰσμοί hoi pleonasmoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πλεονᾰσμοῦ toû pleonasmoû |
τοῖν πλεονᾰσμοῖν toîn pleonasmoîn |
τῶν πλεονᾰσμῶν tôn pleonasmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πλεονᾰσμῷ tôi pleonasmôi |
τοῖν πλεονᾰσμοῖν toîn pleonasmoîn |
τοῖς πλεονᾰσμοῖς toîs pleonasmoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πλεονᾰσμόν tòn pleonasmón |
τὼ πλεονᾰσμώ tṑ pleonasmṓ |
τοὺς πλεονᾰσμούς toùs pleonasmoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλεονᾰσμέ pleonasmé |
πλεονᾰσμώ pleonasmṓ |
πλεονᾰσμοί pleonasmoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
editDescendants
- → Esperanto: pleonasmo
- → Ido: pleonasmo
- → Late Latin: pleonasmus
- → Aragonese: pleonasmo (learned)
- → Czech: pleonasmus
- → English: pleonasm
- → Finnish: pleonasmi
- → French: pléonasme (learned)
- → Galician: pleonasmo (learned)
- → German: Pleonasmus
- → Hungarian: pleonazmus
- → Italian: pleonasmo (learned)
- → Polish: pleonazm
- → Portuguese: pleonasmo (learned)
- → Romanian: pleonasm (learned)
- → Spanish: pleonasmo (learned)
- → Russian: плеона́зм (pleonázm)
- → Kazakh: плеоназм (pleonazm)
- → Ukrainian: плеона́зм (pleonázm)
Further reading
edit- πλεονασμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πλεονασμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “πλεονασμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₁-
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μός
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension