πλάξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pləks, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”), sharing cognates with several Germanic languages through Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”); more at English flake.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pláks/ → /plaks/ → /plaks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pláks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /plaks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /plaks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /plaks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /plaks/

Noun

πλάξ • (pláx) f (genitive πλᾰκός); third declension

1. anything flat and broad
   1. esp. flat land, plain, the ocean surface
   2. flat stone, tablet
      1. tombstone, slab (e.g. of marble)
      2. plate
   3. (in the plural) flaps, tail fins (e.g. of crustaceans)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πλᾰ́ξ; τῆς πλᾰκός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πλᾰ́ξ hē pláx	τὼ πλᾰ́κε tṑ pláke	αἱ πλᾰ́κες hai plákes
Genitive	τῆς πλᾰκός tês plakós	τοῖν πλᾰκοῖν toîn plakoîn	τῶν πλᾰκῶν tôn plakôn
Dative	τῇ πλᾰκῐ́ têi plakí	τοῖν πλᾰκοῖν toîn plakoîn	ταῖς πλᾰξῐ́ / πλᾰξῐ́ν taîs plaxí(n)
Accusative	τὴν πλᾰ́κᾰ tḕn pláka	τὼ πλᾰ́κε tṑ pláke	τᾱ̀ς πλᾰ́κᾰς tā̀s plákas
Vocative	πλᾰ́ξ pláx	πλᾰ́κε pláke	πλᾰ́κες plákes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πλάκινος (plákinos)
• πλακοῦς (plakoûs)

Further reading

• “πλάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πλάξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4109 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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