πλεύμων

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πνεύμων (pneúmōn)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *plew-

Proto-Indo-European *-mō

Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō

Ancient Greek πλεύμων (pleúmōn)

From Proto-Hellenic *pléwmōn, from Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō. Cognates include Sanskrit क्लोमन् (klóman), Latin pulmō and Old Church Slavonic плюща (pljušta).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plěu̯.mɔːn/ → /ˈpleβ.mon/ → /ˈplev.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /plěu̯.mɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈplew.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpleβ.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈplev.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈplev.mon/

Noun

πλεύμων • (pleúmōn) m (genitive πλεύμονος); third declension

1. (usually in the plural) lung

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ πλεύμων; τοῦ πλεύμονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πλεύμων ho pleúmōn	τὼ πλεύμονε tṑ pleúmone	οἱ πλεύμονες hoi pleúmones
Genitive	τοῦ πλεύμονος toû pleúmonos	τοῖν πλευμόνοιν toîn pleumónoin	τῶν πλευμόνων tôn pleumónōn
Dative	τῷ πλεύμονῐ tôi pleúmoni	τοῖν πλευμόνοιν toîn pleumónoin	τοῖς πλεύμοσῐ / πλεύμοσῐν toîs pleúmosi(n)
Accusative	τὸν πλεύμονᾰ tòn pleúmona	τὼ πλεύμονε tṑ pleúmone	τοὺς πλεύμονᾰς toùs pleúmonas
Vocative	πλεῦμον pleûmon	πλεύμονε pleúmone	πλεύμονες pleúmones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “πλεύμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλεύμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλεύμων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lung idem, page 505.