πλήν
See also: πλην
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πλᾱ́ν (plā́n) – Doric
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-. Compare πέλας (pélas), πλησίον (plēsíon).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /plen/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /plin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /plin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /plin/
Preposition
πλήν • (plḗn) (governs the genitive)
Conjunction
πλήν • (plḗn)
- except, save
- (with single words and phrases, especially when a negative precedes)
- (often joined with other particles)
- (introducing a clause)
- (to break off and pass to another subject) only
- New Testament, First Epistle to the Corinthians 11:11
- (late prose)
- (with single words and phrases, especially when a negative precedes)
References
- πλήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πλήν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλήν in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πλήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πλήν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4133 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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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