πλάγγος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Frisk assumes derivation from πλάζομαι (plázomai, “to wander about”), which is not evident. The word may well be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pláŋ.ɡos/ → /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/ → /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pláŋ.ɡos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/

Noun

πλᾰ́γγος • (plángos) m (genitive πλᾰ́γγου); second declension

1. kind of eagle

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πλᾰ́γγος; τοῦ πλᾰ́γγου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πλᾰ́γγος ho plángos	τὼ πλᾰ́γγω tṑ plángō	οἱ πλᾰ́γγοι hoi plángoi
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰ́γγου toû plángou	τοῖν πλᾰ́γγοιν toîn plángoin	τῶν πλᾰ́γγων tôn plángōn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰ́γγῳ tôi plángōi	τοῖν πλᾰ́γγοιν toîn plángoin	τοῖς πλᾰ́γγοις toîs plángois
Accusative	τὸν πλᾰ́γγον tòn plángon	τὼ πλᾰ́γγω tṑ plángō	τοὺς πλᾰ́γγους toùs plángous
Vocative	πλᾰ́γγε plánge	πλᾰ́γγω plángō	πλᾰ́γγοι plángoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: plangus

Further reading

• “πλάγγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πλάγγος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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