plancus

See also: Plancus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈplan.kus/, [ˈpɫ̪äŋkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈplan.kus/, [ˈpläŋkus]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“wide and flat”), like Ancient Greek πλάξ (pláx, “flat, plain”) and Latin plānus (“flat”).

Adjective

plancus (feminine planca, neuter plancum); first/second-declension adjective

1. flat-footed

   Synonym: plautus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	plancus	planca	plancum		plancī	plancae	planca
Genitive	plancī	plancae	plancī		plancōrum	plancārum	plancōrum
Dative	plancō		plancō		plancīs
Accusative	plancum	plancam	plancum		plancōs	plancās	planca
Ablative	plancō	plancā	plancō		plancīs
Vocative	plance	planca	plancum		plancī	plancae	planca

Derived terms

• Plancia
• Planciānus
• Plancius
• Plancus

 

Etymology 2

Noun

plancus m (genitive plancī); second declension

1. Alternative form of plangus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plancus	plancī
Genitive	plancī	plancōrum
Dative	plancō	plancīs
Accusative	plancum	plancōs
Ablative	plancō	plancīs
Vocative	plance	plancī

Descendants

• French: planche
• Spanish: planco

Further reading

• “plancus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plancus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• plancus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “plancus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “plancus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray