πληθώρη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From a stem related to πληθῡ́ς (plēthū́s, “crowd; populace, majority”) and πλήθω (plḗthō, “to be full”) with the suffix -η (-ē, forming nominals), perhaps continuing Proto-Indo-European *pléh₁-dʰ(h₁)-(w)ōr. Compare Latin plēbs (“crowd; populace, people, folk”).

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plɛː.tʰɔ̌ː.rɛː/ → /pliˈθo.ri/ → /pliˈθo.ri/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /plɛː.tʰɔ̌ː.rɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ple̝ˈtʰo.re̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pliˈθo.ri/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pliˈθo.ri/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pliˈθo.ri/

Noun

πληθώρη • (plēthṓrē) f (genitive πληθώρης); first declension

1. fullness
2. (medicine) generation of blood or humors by the body

Descendants

• → Late Latin: plēthōra (learned)
  • → English: plethora

References

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