πέπλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe a reduplicated formation from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”) and so cognate with the Ancient Greek suffix -πλόος (-plóos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.plos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.plos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.plos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.plos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.plos/
Noun
πέπλος • (péplos) m (genitive πέπλου); second declension
- any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil
- upper garment or full-length mantle in one piece, worn by women
- (at Athens) embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea
- (less frequent) man's robe or cloak, especially of long Persian dresses
- (anatomy) peritoneum
- wartweed (Euphorbia peplus)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πέπλος ho péplos |
τὼ πέπλω tṑ péplō |
οἱ πέπλοι hoi péploi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πέπλου toû péplou |
τοῖν πέπλοιν toîn péploin |
τῶν πέπλων tôn péplōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πέπλῳ tôi péplōi |
τοῖν πέπλοιν toîn péploin |
τοῖς πέπλοις toîs péplois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πέπλον tòn péplon |
τὼ πέπλω tṑ péplō |
τοὺς πέπλους toùs péplous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πέπλε péple |
πέπλω péplō |
πέπλοι péploi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κροκόπεπλος (krokópeplos)
- λινόπεπλος (linópeplos)
- πέπλιον (péplion)
- πεπλίς (peplís)
- πεπλογραφία (peplographía)
- πεπλοδόχος (peplodókhos)
- πεπλοθήκη (peplothḗkē)
- πεπλοποιία (peplopoiía)
- πέπλυφος (pépluphos)
- πέπλωμα (péplōma)
- τανύπεπλος (tanúpeplos)
References
- “πέπλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέπλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πέπλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πέπλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πέπλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πέπλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- πέπλος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dress idem, page 252.
- garb idem, page 353.
- garment idem, page 354.
- grave-clothes idem, page 371.
- raiment idem, page 669.
- robe idem, page 719.
- sheet idem, page 764.
- shroud idem, page 771.
- winding-sheet idem, page 981.
- 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
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