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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally associated with πίμπλημι (pímplēmi, “to fill”), but this is popular etymology. Beekes preferably derives it from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”), the same root of πόλος (pólos, “axis, pole”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plɛ̌ːm.nɛː/ → /ˈplim.ni/ → /ˈplim.ni/
Noun
πλήμνη • (plḗmnē) f (genitive πλήμνης); first declension
- nave of a wheel, hub
- Synonym: χνόη (khnóē)
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “πλήμνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλήμνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλήμνη 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πλήμνη (plḗmnē).
Noun
πλήμνη • (plímni) f
- hub (of a wheel)
Declension
Synonyms
- αφαλός m (afalós) (the more common term)