περίπλους

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From περί (perí) +‎ πλοῦς (ploûs).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.rí.ploːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛˈri.plus/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /peˈri.plus/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /peˈri.plus/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peˈri.plus/

Proper noun

περῐ́πλους • (períplous) m (genitive περῐ́πλου); second declension

sailing round, circumnavigation

Descendants

→ French: périple

Further reading

περίπλους in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
περίπλους 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- circumnavigation idem, page 132.
- sailing idem, page 731.

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