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

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.plos/ → /ˈpe.plos/ → /ˈpe.plos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.plos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.plos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.plos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.plos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.plos/

Noun

πέπλος • (péplos) m (genitive πέπλου); second declension

1. any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil
2. upper garment or full-length mantle in one piece, worn by women
3. (at Athens) embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea
4. (less frequent) man's robe or cloak, especially of long Persian dresses
5. (anatomy) peritoneum
6. 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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ πέπλος; τοῦ πέπλου (Attic)

Derived terms

• κροκόπεπλος (krokópeplos)
• λινόπεπλος (linópeplos)
• πέπλιον (péplion)
• πεπλίς (peplís)
• πεπλογραφία (peplographía)
• πεπλοδόχος (peplodókhos)
• πεπλοθήκη (peplothḗkē)
• πεπλοποιία (peplopoiía)
• πέπλυφος (pépluphos)
• πέπλωμα (péplōma)
• τανύπεπλος (tanúpeplos)

 

Descendants

• → English: peplos
• Greek: πέπλος m (péplos), πέπλο n (péplo)
• → Italian: peplo

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