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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *pləks, probably from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”), sharing cognates with several Germanic languages through Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”); more at English flake.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pláks/ → /plaks/ → /plaks/
Noun
πλάξ • (pláx) f (genitive πλᾰκός); third declension
- anything flat and broad
- esp. flat land, plain, the ocean surface
- flat stone, tablet
- tombstone, slab (e.g. of marble)
- plate
- (in the plural) flaps, tail fins (e.g. of crustaceans)
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References
Further reading
- “πλάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πλάξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4109 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “πλάξ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011