πλίνθος

• πλίνθον (plínthon)

According to Beekes, the semantic field (architecture), as well as the presence of the element "-ινθ-", suggest a loan from Pre-Greek.

πλίνθος • (plínthos) f (genitive πλίνθου); second declension

1. A brick, whether sun or fire baked
2. A squared stone for building
3. An ingot of metal
4. (architecture) A plinth of a column

• Latin: plinthus

• πλίνθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πλίνθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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

• πλίθος m (plíthos)
• πλιθάρι n (plithári)
• πλίθα f (plítha) (colloquial)
• πλίθρα f (plíthra) (colloquial)

πλίνθος • (plínthos) f (plural πλίνθοι)

1. (architecture) mudbrick
2. (architecture, by extension) brick

• (mudbrick): οπτόπλινθος f (optóplinthos)
• (brick): τούβλο n (toúvlo)

• πλίνθινος (plínthinos, “built of adobe”)
• πλίθινος (plíthinos, “built of adobe”)
• πλινθοδομή f (plinthodomí, “brick building”)
• πλινθοκτίστης m (plinthoktístis, “bricklayer”)
• πλινθόκτιστος (plinthóktistos, “built of brick”)

• χτίστης m (chtístis, “builder, bricklayer”)
• τοιχοποιία f (toichopoiía, “brickwork”)