πέπλος

Ancient Greek

Maybe a reduplicated formation from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”) and so cognate with the Ancient Greek suffix -πλόος (-plóos).

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

any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil, funeral-urn, seat
upper garment or mantle in one piece, worn by women
peritoneum
wartweed

Second declension of ὁ πέπλος; τοῦ πέπλου (Attic)

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.

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

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