πλευρῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πλευρά (pleurá, “rib, side of a man or animal”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis, “a suffix forming a feminine noun, especially a technical term that pertains to the root word”)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pleu̯.rîː.tis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /plewˈri.tis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pleˈβri.tis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pleˈvri.tis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pleˈvri.tis/

Noun

πλευρ̄ῖτῐς • (pleur̄îtĭs) f (genitive πλευρί̄τῐδος); third declension

(medicine) pleuritis, pleurisy
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 1248
- 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 417
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 5.1138b

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πλευρ̄ῖτῐς; τῆς πλευρῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πλευρ̄ῖτῐς hē pleur̄îtĭs	τὼ πλευρῑ́τῐδε tṑ pleurī́tĭde	αἱ πλευρῑ́τῐδες hai pleurī́tĭdes
Genitive	τῆς πλευρῑ́τῐδος tês pleurī́tĭdos	τοῖν πλευρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn pleurītĭ́doin	τῶν πλευρῑτῐ́δων tôn pleurītĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ πλευρῑ́τῐδῐ têi pleurī́tĭdĭ	τοῖν πλευρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn pleurītĭ́doin	ταῖς πλευρῑ́τῐσῐ / πλευρῑ́τῐσῐν taîs pleurī́tĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν πλευρῑ́τῐδᾰ / πλευρῖτῐν tḕn pleurī́tĭdă / pleurîtĭn	τὼ πλευρῑ́τῐδε tṑ pleurī́tĭde	τᾱ̀ς πλευρῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s pleurī́tĭdăs
Vocative	πλευρ̄ῖτῐς pleur̄îtĭs	πλευρῑ́τῐδε pleurī́tĭde	πλευρῑ́τῐδες pleurī́tĭdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

→ Greek: πλευρίτιδα (plevrítida) (learned)
→ Latin: pleurītis
- English: pleuritis

References

“πλευρῖτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πλευρῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
πλευρῖτις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
“πλευρῖτις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011