Ancient Greek edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hellenic *pluňňō, from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (to wash), the same root of Latin pluit (it rains) and Old Armenian լուանամ (luanam, to wash).

Pronunciation edit

 

Verb edit

πλῡ́νω (plū́nō)

  1. to wash, clean, especially of clothes

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Greek: πλένω (pléno)

Further reading edit

  • πλύνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • πλύνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • πλύνω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • πλύνω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • πλύνω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • 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 edit

Verb edit

πλύνω (plýno)

  1. 1st person singular dependent form of πλένω (pléno).