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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-, with laryngeal aspiration. Beekes claims that it is Pre-Greek, and related to πλάσσω (plássō, “to mold, shape”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plá.tʰa.non/ → /ˈpla.θa.non/ → /ˈpla.θa.non/
Noun
πλᾰ́θᾰνον • (pláthanon) n (genitive πλᾰθᾰ́νου); second declension
- dish or mold in which bread and cakes were baked
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Further reading
- “πλάθανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλάθανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλάθανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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