πλατίστακος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, related to the fish name πλάταξ (plátax).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pla.tís.ta.kos/ → /plaˈtis.ta.kos/ → /plaˈtis.ta.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pla.tís.ta.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /plaˈtis.ta.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /plaˈtis.ta.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /plaˈtis.ta.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /plaˈtis.ta.kos/

Noun

πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκος • (platístakos) m (genitive πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κου); second declension

1. brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

   Synonym: μύλλος (múllos)

2. kind of fish found in the Nile

   Synonyms: κορακῖνος (korakînos), σαπέρδης (sapérdēs)

3. (figuratively) pudendum muliebre

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκος; τοῦ πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκος ho platístakos	τὼ πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κω tṑ platistákō	οἱ πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκοι hoi platístakoi
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κου toû platistákou	τοῖν πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κοιν toîn platistákoin	τῶν πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κων tôn platistákōn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κῳ tôi platistákōi	τοῖν πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κοιν toîn platistákoin	τοῖς πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κοις toîs platistákois
Accusative	τὸν πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκον tòn platístakon	τὼ πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κω tṑ platistákō	τοὺς πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κους toùs platistákous
Vocative	πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκε platístake	πλᾰτῐστᾰ́κω platistákō	πλᾰτῐ́στᾰκοι platístakoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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