πλάξ

From earlier *plk-s, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), sharing several Germanic cognates with Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”); more at English flake.

πλάξ • (pláx) f (genitive πλακός); 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. (pl) 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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