πλάθανον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-, with laryngeal aspiration. Beekes claims that it is Pre-Greek, and related to πλάσσω (plássō, “to mold, shape”).

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

πλᾰ́θᾰνον • (plắthănon) n (genitive πλᾰθᾰ́νου); second declension

dish or mold in which bread and cakes were baked

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πλᾰ́θᾰνον; τοῦ πλᾰθᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πλᾰ́θᾰνον tò plắthănon	τὼ πλᾰθᾰ́νω tṑ plăthắnō	τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́θᾰνᾰ tằ plắthănă
Genitive	τοῦ πλᾰθᾰ́νου toû plăthắnou	τοῖν πλᾰθᾰ́νοιν toîn plăthắnoin	τῶν πλᾰθᾰ́νων tôn plăthắnōn
Dative	τῷ πλᾰθᾰ́νῳ tôi plăthắnōi	τοῖν πλᾰθᾰ́νοιν toîn plăthắnoin	τοῖς πλᾰθᾰ́νοις toîs plăthắnois
Accusative	τὸ πλᾰ́θᾰνον tò plắthănon	τὼ πλᾰθᾰ́νω tṑ plăthắnō	τᾰ̀ πλᾰ́θᾰνᾰ tằ plắthănă
Vocative	πλᾰ́θᾰνον plắthănon	πλᾰθᾰ́νω plăthắnō	πλᾰ́θᾰνᾰ plắthănă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

πλαθανίτης (plathanítēs)

“πλάθανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πλάθανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πλάθανον 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