πλάξ

From Proto-Hellenic *pləks, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”), sharing cognates with several Germanic languages through Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”); more at English flake.

πλάξ • (pláx) f (genitive πλᾰκός); third declension

1. anything flat and broad
   1. esp. flat land, plain, the ocean surface
   2. flat stone, tablet
      1. tombstone, slab (e.g. of marble)
      2. plate
   3. (in the plural) flaps, tail fins (e.g. of crustaceans)

• “πλάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πλάξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4109 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • expanse idem, page 292.
  • heath idem, page 393.
  • plain idem, page 616.
  • region idem, page 687.
  • stretch idem, page 825.
  • tract idem, page 885.
• “πλάξ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011