πλάγγος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Frisk assumes derivation from πλάζομαι (plázomai, “to wander about”), which is not evident. The word may well be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pláŋ.ɡos/ → /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/ → /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pláŋ.ɡos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈplaŋ.ɡos/

Noun

πλᾰ́γγος • (plắngos) m (genitive πλᾰ́γγου); second declension

1. kind of eagle

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πλᾰ́γγος; τοῦ πλᾰ́γγου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πλᾰ́γγος ho plắngos	τὼ πλᾰ́γγω tṑ plắngō	οἱ πλᾰ́γγοι hoi plắngoi
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰ́γγου toû plắngou	τοῖν πλᾰ́γγοιν toîn plắngoin	τῶν πλᾰ́γγων tôn plắngōn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰ́γγῳ tôi plắngōi	τοῖν πλᾰ́γγοιν toîn plắngoin	τοῖς πλᾰ́γγοις toîs plắngois
Accusative	τὸν πλᾰ́γγον tòn plắngon	τὼ πλᾰ́γγω tṑ plắngō	τοὺς πλᾰ́γγους toùs plắngous
Vocative	πλᾰ́γγε plắnge	πλᾰ́γγω plắngō	πλᾰ́γγοι plắngoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: plangus

Further reading

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