πλάδος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πλάδη (pládē)

Etymology

Unclear word, found especially in medical literature. It has been derived from Proto-Indo-European *peld-, like Latvian peldēt (“to swim”) and Lithuanian peldėti (“to swim”). Alternatively, Beekes considers a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plá.dos/ → /ˈpla.ðos/ → /ˈpla.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /plá.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ðos/

Noun

πλάδος • (pládos) m (genitive πλάδου); second declension

1. moisture, abundance of fluids

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πλᾰ́δος; τοῦ πλᾰ́δου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πλᾰ́δος ho pládos	τὼ πλᾰ́δω tṑ pládō	οἱ πλᾰ́δοι hoi pládoi
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰ́δου toû pládou	τοῖν πλᾰ́δοιν toîn pládoin	τῶν πλᾰ́δων tôn pládōn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰ́δῳ tôi pládōi	τοῖν πλᾰ́δοιν toîn pládoin	τοῖς πλᾰ́δοις toîs pládois
Accusative	τὸν πλᾰ́δον tòn pládon	τὼ πλᾰ́δω tṑ pládō	τοὺς πλᾰ́δους toùs pládous
Vocative	πλᾰ́δε pláde	πλᾰ́δω pládō	πλᾰ́δοι pládoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πλαδαρός (pladarós)
• πλαδάω (pladáō)
• πλάδησις (pládēsis)
• πλαδόεις (pladóeis)
• πλαδώδης (pladṓdēs)
• πλάδωσις (pládōsis)

 

Further reading

• “πλάδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πλάδος 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