Pleias

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Plēias f (genitive Plēiadis); third declension

  1. a Pleiad, one of the Seven Sisters
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.668:
      Nec superum rector mala tanta Phoronidos ultra ferre potest natumque vocat, quem lucida partu Pleias enixa est letoque det imperat Argum.
      Now the king of the gods can no longer stand Phoronis’s great sufferings, and he calls his son, born of the shining Pleiad, and orders him to kill Argus.
  2. (in the plural) the Pleiades (constellation)
  3. (transferred sense, poetic) a storm, rain

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Plēias Plēiadēs
Genitive Plēiadis Plēiadum
Dative Plēiadī Plēiadibus
Accusative Plēiadem Plēiadēs
Ablative Plēiade Plēiadibus
Vocative Plēias Plēiadēs

References

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  • Pleias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Pleias”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Pleias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Pleias”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers