πλευρῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πλευρά (pleurá, “rib, side of a man or animal”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis, “a suffix forming a feminine noun, especially a technical term that pertains to the root word”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pleu̯.rîː.tis/ → /pleˈβri.tis/ → /pleˈvri.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pleu̯.rîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /plewˈri.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pleˈβri.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pleˈvri.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pleˈvri.tis/

Noun

πλευρ̄ῖτῐς • (pleur̄îtis) f (genitive πλευρί̄τῐδος); third declension

1. (medicine) pleuritis, pleurisy
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1248
   • 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 417
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 5.1138b

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πλευρ̄ῖτῐς; τῆς πλευρῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πλευρ̄ῖτῐς hē pleur̄îtis	τὼ πλευρῑ́τῐδε tṑ pleurī́tide	αἱ πλευρῑ́τῐδες hai pleurī́tides
Genitive	τῆς πλευρῑ́τῐδος tês pleurī́tidos	τοῖν πλευρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn pleurītídoin	τῶν πλευρῑτῐ́δων tôn pleurītídōn
Dative	τῇ πλευρῑ́τῐδῐ têi pleurī́tidi	τοῖν πλευρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn pleurītídoin	ταῖς πλευρῑ́τῐσῐ / πλευρῑ́τῐσῐν taîs pleurī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πλευρῑ́τῐδᾰ / πλευρῖτῐν tḕn pleurī́tida / pleurîtin	τὼ πλευρῑ́τῐδε tṑ pleurī́tide	τᾱ̀ς πλευρῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s pleurī́tidas
Vocative	πλευρ̄ῖτῐς pleur̄îtis	πλευρῑ́τῐδε pleurī́tide	πλευρῑ́τῐδες pleurī́tides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Greek: πλευρίτιδα (plevrítida) (learned)
• → Latin: pleurītis
  • English: pleuritis

References

• “πλευρῖτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πλευρῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πλευρῖτις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “πλευρῖτις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011