- πλοῦτος
- πλοῦτοςGrammatical information: m. (late also n.; Schwyzer 512).Meaning: `riches, wealth' (Il.), also personified (Hes.; cf. Πλούτων below).Dialectal forms: Myc. porouteu \/Πλουτεύς\/.Compounds: Compp., e.g. πλουτο-δότης m. `who spends riches' (Hes.), καλλί-πλουτος `with beautiful riches' (Pi.).Derivatives: 1. πλούσ-ιος, Lac. πλούτιος (EM) `rich' (Hes., h. Merc.; Zumbach Neuerungen 13) with -ιακός `belonging to the rich' (Alex. Com.), -ιάω = πλουτέω (Alex. Aphr.). 2. πλουτ-ηρός `bringing riches' (X.); -ᾱξ, -ᾱκος m. `a rich fool' (Com.). 3. -ίνδην adv. `acc. to property' (Arist.). 4. πλουτ-έω `be rich' (Hes.); -ίζω `make rich, enrich' (trag., X.; κατα- πλοῦτος Hdt.) with -ιστής, -ιστήριος, ισμός (late). 5. Πλούτων, -ωνος m. god of reches, i.e. of the corn-provisions buried in the earth (trag.); on the motif of designation s. Nilsson Gr. Rel. I 471 ff.; acc. to. H. s. εὔπλουτον κανοῦν: "πλοῦτον γὰρ ἔλεγον την ἐκ τῶν κριθῶν καὶ τῶν πυρῶν περιουσίαν". 6. Πλουτεύς `id.' (Mosch., AP), prob. after Ζεύς; diff. Bosshardt 126.Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [835] *pleu- `run, flow, swim'Etymology: Formation with το-suffix like the partly close νόστος, βίοτος, φόρτος; from πλέω in the sense `flow', so prop. "river, flood", first metaph. of a rich produce of corn (cf. above); so from *plou-to-. Diff. Porzig Satzinhalte 261: prop. "ford", of the inundation of the fields by the rain. -- Cf. the lit. on πένομαι.Page in Frisk: 2,563-564
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.