πλάδος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πλάδη (pládē)

Etymology

Unclear word, found especially in medical literature. It has been derived from Proto-Indo-European *peld-, like Latvian peldēt (“to swim”) and Lithuanian peldėti (“to swim”). Alternatively, Beekes considers a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plá.dos/ → /ˈpla.ðos/ → /ˈpla.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /plá.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ðos/

Noun

πλάδος • (pládos) m (genitive πλάδου); second declension

1. moisture, abundance of fluids

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πλᾰ́δος; τοῦ πλᾰ́δου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πλᾰ́δος ho plắdos	τὼ πλᾰ́δω tṑ plắdō	οἱ πλᾰ́δοι hoi plắdoi
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰ́δου toû plắdou	τοῖν πλᾰ́δοιν toîn plắdoin	τῶν πλᾰ́δων tôn plắdōn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰ́δῳ tôi plắdōi	τοῖν πλᾰ́δοιν toîn plắdoin	τοῖς πλᾰ́δοις toîs plắdois
Accusative	τὸν πλᾰ́δον tòn plắdon	τὼ πλᾰ́δω tṑ plắdō	τοὺς πλᾰ́δους toùs plắdous
Vocative	πλᾰ́δε plắde	πλᾰ́δω plắdō	πλᾰ́δοι plắdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πλαδαρός (pladarós)
• πλαδάω (pladáō)
• πλάδησις (pládēsis)
• πλαδόεις (pladóeis)
• πλαδώδης (pladṓdēs)
• πλάδωσις (pládōsis)

 

Further reading

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