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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πίμπλημι (pímplēmi, “to fill, satisfy”) + -μᾰ (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plɛ̂ːz.ma/ → /ˈpliz.ma/ → /ˈpliz.ma/
Noun
πλῆσμᾰ • (plêsma) n (genitive πλήσμᾰτος); third declension
- (of animals) impregnation
- being filled, satiety, saturation
Declension
Further reading
- “πλῆσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πλῆσμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πλῆσμα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011