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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe a reduplicated formation from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”) and so cognate with the Ancient Greek suffix -πλόος (-plóos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pé.plos/ → /ˈpe.plos/ → /ˈpe.plos/
Noun
πέπλος • (péplos) m (genitive πέπλου); second declension
- any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil
- upper garment or full-length mantle in one piece, worn by women
- (at Athens) embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea
- (less frequent) man's robe or cloak, especially of long Persian dresses
- (anatomy) peritoneum
- wartweed (Euphorbia peplus)
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References
- “πέπλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέπλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πέπλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πέπλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πέπλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πέπλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- πέπλος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN