Pleias
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpleː.i.as/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈple.i.as/,
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpleː.i̯as/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈple.jas/,
Proper noun
Plēias f (genitive Plēiadis); third declension
- a Pleiad, one of the Seven Sisters
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.668:
- Nec superum rector mala tanta Phoronidos ultra ferre potest natumque vocat, quem lucida partu Pleias enixa est letoque det imperat Argum.
- Now the king of the gods can no longer stand Phoronis’s great sufferings, and he calls his son, born of the shining Pleiad, and orders him to kill Argus.
- Nec superum rector mala tanta Phoronidos ultra ferre potest natumque vocat, quem lucida partu Pleias enixa est letoque det imperat Argum.
- (in the plural) the Pleiades (constellation)
- (transferred sense, poetic) a storm, rain
- c. 90 CE, Valerius Flaccius, Argonautica 2.405:
- Modo saeva quierunt aequora. Sic portus fugeret ratis, aspera si te Plias in adversae tenuisset litore Thraces.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Plēias | Plēiadēs |
| genitive | Plēiadis | Plēiadum |
| dative | Plēiadī | Plēiadibus |
| accusative | Plēiadem | Plēiadēs |
| ablative | Plēiade | Plēiadibus |
| vocative | Plēias | Plēiadēs |
References
- “Pleias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Pleias”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Pleias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Pleias”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers