πλυνός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πλύνω (plúnō, “to wash, clean”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ply.nós/ → /plyˈnos/ → /pliˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ply.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /plyˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /plyˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /plyˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pliˈnos/

Noun

πλῠνός • (plunós) m (genitive πλῠνοῦ); second declension

1. trough, tank or pit in which dirty clothes were washed by treading
2. washing tubs, fuller's tubs

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πλῠνός; τοῦ πλῠνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πλῠνός ho plunós	τὼ πλῠνώ tṑ plunṓ	οἱ πλῠνοί hoi plunoí
Genitive	τοῦ πλῠνοῦ toû plunoû	τοῖν πλῠνοῖν toîn plunoîn	τῶν πλῠνῶν tôn plunôn
Dative	τῷ πλῠνῷ tôi plunôi	τοῖν πλῠνοῖν toîn plunoîn	τοῖς πλῠνοῖς toîs plunoîs
Accusative	τὸν πλῠνόν tòn plunón	τὼ πλῠνώ tṑ plunṓ	τοὺς πλῠνούς toùs plunoús
Vocative	πλῠνέ pluné	πλῠνώ plunṓ	πλῠνοί plunoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πλύνιον (plúnion)

References

• “πλυνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλυνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλυνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette