πλάσσω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πλάττω (pláttō) — Attic

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō, from earlier *plátʰyō, which Beekes suspects to be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

Verb

πλάσσω • (plássō)

1. to form, mould, shape, sculpt
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 879
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 926
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 623b.32
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 359a.1
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 654b.29
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 26
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 1130
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.313
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.47
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.108
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 70
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Evagoras 75
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander 535.5
   • 362 BCE – 262 BCE, Philemon, Collected Works 89.1
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 746a
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 933b
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 510e
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 297e
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 50a
   1. to plaster
2. (figuratively) to form, train a skill
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 536b.19
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 830
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 671c
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 377c
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 500d
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 88c
3. to imagine
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Music 85K
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 712b
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 246c
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 420c
4. to put in a certain form
   • 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 2.24.24
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1 68
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 414d
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Demosthenes 7
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.58
5. (figuratively) to fabricate, forge
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1030
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Against Alcibiades 23
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1381b.28
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 64.9
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 2 9
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1 28
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Callippus 12
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 187
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 121
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 231
   • 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 215
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 19.1
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.80
   • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Apollodorus 2
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 25
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Property of Aristophanes 60
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Monostichoi 145
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 17c
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 26e
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.42.7
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 148
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.6.26
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.37

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Greek: πλάθω (plátho, “to create, to form, to shape”)

References

• “πλάσσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλάσσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλάσσω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “πλάσσω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4111 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN