πλύνω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pluňňō, from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (to wash), the same root of Latin pluit (it rains) and Old Armenian լուանամ (luanam, to wash).

Pronunciation

 

Verb

πλῡ́νω • (plū́nō)

  1. to wash, clean, especially of clothes

Inflection

Derived terms

  • ἀποπλῡ́νω (apoplū́nō)
  • ἐκπλῡ́νω (ekplū́nō)
  • κᾰτᾰπλῡ́νω (kataplū́nō)
  • περῐπλῡ́νω (periplū́nō)
  • πλυντήρ (pluntḗr)
  • πλῠ́μᾰ (plúma)
  • πλῠνεύς (pluneús)
  • πλῠνός (plunós)
  • πλῠντήρῐος (pluntḗrios)
  • πλῠ́ντης (plúntēs)
  • πλῠ́ντρον (plúntron)
  • πλῠντρῐ́ς (pluntrís)
  • πλῠ́ντρῐᾱ (plúntriā)
  • πλῠντῐκός (pluntikós)
  • πλῠσμός (plusmós)
  • πλῠ́σῐμον (plúsimon)
  • πλῠ́σῐς (plúsis)

Descendants

  • Greek: πλένω (pléno)

Further reading

  • πλύνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • πλύνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • πλύνω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • πλύνω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • πλύνω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • 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

Greek

Verb

πλύνω • (plýno)

  1. 1st person singular dependent form of πλένω (pléno).
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