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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Substantivization and contraction of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pla.kûːs/ → /plaˈkus/ → /plaˈkus/
Noun
πλᾰκοῦς • (plakoûs) m (genitive πλᾰκοῦντος); third declension
- flat cake
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- πλακοῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πλακοῦς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “πλακοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.