περίπλους

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From περί (perí) +‎ πλοῦς (ploûs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pe.rí.pluːs/ → /peˈri.plus/ → /peˈri.plus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.rí.pluːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /peˈri.plus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /peˈri.plus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /peˈri.plus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peˈri.plus/

Proper noun

περῐ́πλους • (períplous) m (genitive περῐ́πλου); second declension

1. sailing round, circumnavigation

Declension

ὁ περίπλους, τοῦ περίπλου - 2nd Declension, contracted (of περίπλοος)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ περίπλους	τὼ περίπλω	οἱ περίπλοι
Genitive	τοῦ περίπλου	τοῖν περίπλοιν	τῶν περίπλων
Dative	τῷ περίπλῳ	τοῖν περίπλοιν	τοῖς περίπλοις
Accusative	τὸν περίπλουν	τὼ περίπλω	τοὺς περίπλους
Vocative	περίπλου	περίπλω	περίπλοι
Dialectal forms:
Notes:	Dual and vocatives are rare.

Descendants

• → French: périple
• Greek: περίπλους (períplous)

Further reading

• “περίπλους”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• περίπλους in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • circumnavigation idem, page 132.
  • sailing idem, page 731.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περίπλους. Morphologically, from περι- (“round”) +‎ πλους (“sailing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈri.plus/
• Hyphenation: πε‧ρί‧πλους

Noun

περίπλους • (períplous) m (plural περίπλοι)

1. periplus
   1. sailing round, circumnavigation
   2. an account or description of such a voyage

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	περίπλους (períplous)	περίπλοι (períploi)
genitive	περίπλου (períplou)	περίπλων (períplon)
accusative	περίπλου (períplou)	περίπλους (períplous)
vocative	-	-

Plural and especially the genitive are rare.

Noun

περίπλους • (períplous) m

1. Accusative plural form of περίπλους (períplous).

Related terms

• περιπλέω (peripléo, “sail round, circumnavigate”)

• and see: πλέω (pléo, “sail; float”)