- πλευρά
- πλευράGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `rib(s), side of the body', metaph. `side of an area, of a geometrical figure, flank of an army' (Il.).Other forms: usu. pl. -αί; -όν, usu. pl. -ά n.Compounds: Very often as 2. member, e.g. περί-πλευρος `going around the ribs, covering the sides' (E. in lyr.).Derivatives: Dimin. πλευρ-ία pl. (Hp., Delph. inscr.), -ιάς f. `side of an area' (Tab. Heracl.; after πεδι-άς a.o.; cf. Chantraine Form. 354); -ιαῖος `situated at the sides' (Boeot. inscr.), -ικός `belonging to the ribs' (sch.); -ίτης m. `connected to the ribs', designation of a bone of the spine (Poll.), -ῖτις (νόσος) f. `pleurisy' (Hp., Ar.), also as pl.name = σκόρδιον (Ps.-Dsc.; because of the working, cf. Redard 75); -ώματα n. pl. = πλευρά (A.; poetic enlargement, Chantraine Form. 186); -ισμός m. meaning unclear, `dam'? (pap.); -ών, -ῶνος m. Aetol. PlN (Β 639 a.o.), Krahe ZONF 8, 159. -- Hypostasis παρα-πλευρ-ίδια n. pl. `side-armors' (X., Arr.).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Formation like νευρά a.o., so to be enalysed in πλε-υρ-ά, -όν (Benveniste Origines 112 f.). Without certain explanation. If origin. `side', one would like with Benveniste l.c. to connect with the root pelā- `broaden' (πέλαγος, πλάξ, παλάμη a.o.). If however, what is much more probable, prop. `rib', this etymology is is irrelevant. Or prop. "what belongs at the side (*πλῆ-Ϝαρ)"? -- Older hypotheses in Bq (rejected).Page in Frisk: 2,559
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.