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Ancient Greek
Etymology
No relation with the synonymous πλινθίον (plinthíon), but a direct loan from Lydian 𐤡𐤩𐤠𐤳𐤬 (plašo, “socle”). This word is related to Hittite (palzaḫ(ḫ)a-, “pedestal”). Furnée also appropriately adduces πλάτας (plátas, “basis of a tomb”), which is very likely to be Anatolian origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plǎi̯.si.on/ → /ˈplɛ.si.on/ → /ˈple.si.on/
Noun
πλαίσῐον • (plaísion) n (genitive πλαισῐ́ου); second declension
- oblong case or frame used in moulding bricks and in measuring
- Synonym: πλῐνθῐ́ον (plinthíon)
- hollow rectangle
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Further reading
- “πλαίσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πλαίσιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πλαίσιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1201