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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πλανάω (planáō, “to wander”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plá.nos/ → /ˈpla.nos/ → /ˈpla.nos/
Adjective
πλάνος • (plános) m or f (neuter πλάνον); second declension
- leading astray, cheating, deceiving
- (nominalized, masculine) Synonym of πλάνη (plánē, “wandering, roaming”)
- (nominalized, masculine) deceiver, impostor
Declension
Quotations
55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle,
Second Epistle to the Corinthians 6:8:
- διὰ δόξης καὶ ἀτιμίας, διὰ δυσφημίας καὶ εὐφημίας· ὡς πλάνοι, καὶ ἀληθεῖς·
- dià dóxēs kaì atimías, dià dusphēmías kaì euphēmías; hōs plánoi, kaì alētheîs;
- Translation by KJV
- By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- πλάνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πλάνος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “πλάνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G4108 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.