πλάτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂os (“breadth”). Cognates include Sanskrit प्रथस् (práthas), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬀𐬵 (fraθah), Old Armenian լայն (layn), Welsh lled. See also πλατύς (platús, “wide”).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

πλᾰ́τος • (plátos) n (genitive πλᾰ́τους or πλᾰ́τεος); third declension

1. breadth, width
2. (astronomy) celestial latitude, declination

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ πλᾰ́τος; τοῦ πλᾰ́τους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πλᾰ́τος tò plátos	τὼ πλᾰ́τει tṑ plátei	τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́τη tà plátē
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰ́τους toû plátous	τοῖν πλᾰτοῖν toîn platoîn	τῶν πλᾰτῶν tôn platôn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰ́τει tôi plátei	τοῖν πλᾰτοῖν toîn platoîn	τοῖς πλᾰ́τεσῐ / πλᾰ́τεσῐν toîs plátesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ πλᾰ́τος tò plátos	τὼ πλᾰ́τει tṑ plátei	τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́τη tà plátē
Vocative	πλᾰ́τος plátos	πλᾰ́τει plátei	πλᾰ́τη plátē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ πλᾰ́τος; τοῦ πλᾰ́τεος (Ionic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πλᾰ́τος tò plátos	τὼ πλᾰ́τει / πλᾰ́τεε tṑ plátei / plátee	τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́τεᾰ tà plátea
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰ́τεος / πλᾰ́τευς toû pláteos / pláteus	τοῖν πλᾰτέοιν toîn platéoin	τῶν πλᾰτέων tôn platéōn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰ́τει / πλᾰ́τεῐ̈ tôi plátei / pláteï	τοῖν πλᾰτέοιν toîn platéoin	τοῖσῐ / τοῖσῐν πλᾰ́τεσῐ / πλᾰ́τεσῐν toîsi(n) plátesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ πλᾰ́τος tò plátos	τὼ πλᾰ́τει / πλᾰ́τεε tṑ plátei / plátee	τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́τεᾰ tà plátea
Vocative	πλᾰ́τος plátos	πλᾰ́τει / πλᾰ́τεε plátei / plátee	πλᾰ́τεᾰ plátea
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Synonyms

• εὖρος (eûros)

References

• “πλάτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλάτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλάτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4114 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• πλάτος 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • area idem, page 39.
  • breadth idem, page 94.
  • broadness idem, page 100.
  • width idem, page 978.

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Greek

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek.

Noun

πλάτος • (plátos) n (plural πλάτη)

1. (mathematics) width, breadth

Declension

Declension of πλάτος

	singular	plural
nominative	πλάτος •	πλάτη •
genitive	πλάτους •	πλατών •
accusative	πλάτος •	πλάτη •
vocative	πλάτος •	πλάτη •

Derived terms

• γεωγραφικό πλάτος n (geografikó plátos, “latitude”)

See also

• μήκος n (míkos, “length”)
• ύψος n (ýpsos, “height”)