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πλᾰτύς, εῖα, ύ,
Ionic dialect feminine πλατέα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.156: _accusative_ _plural_ _feminine_ πλατέας “PMag.Par.” 1.1086 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—wide, broad, τελαμών [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.796; πτύον 13.588 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἰπόλια πλατέ᾽ αἰγῶν broad herds, i.e. large or spread over a wide space,[[ 2.474, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.101, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 445; π. πρόσοδοι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.45; ὁδοί 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.43, “IG” 22.380.20] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν π. [[ “Broad” Street, “SIG” 57.27 (Milet., 5th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; similarly, π. ὁδὸς τῶν θεῶν [[ “PStrassb.” 85.22 (2nd c.BC) compare(below 11); κιβώτιον π. “IG” 12.330.20; τάφρος ὡς πλατυτάτη καὶ βαθυτάτη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 flat, level, χῶρος π. καὶ πολλός [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.39; πλατυτάτης.. γῆς οὔσης Θετταλίας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.1.9; πότερον ἡ γῆ π. ἐστιν ἢ στρογγύλη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 97d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κάρυα τὰ π., i.e. chestnuts, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.55, Diocl.fragment 126, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σελάχη, ἰχθύες, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 489b31, “PA” 695b7; ποτήρια πλατέα, τοίχους οὐκ ἔχοντ᾽ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 143.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of a man, broad-shouldered, οὐ γὰρ οἱ πλατεῖς, οὐδ᾽ εὐρύνωτοι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1250, compare “UPZ” 121.19 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 of seasons, far advanced, ἔαρ Procl.ad [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 483. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__5 metaphorically, π. ὅρκος a broad strong oath, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 30.3, compare 115.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατάγελως π. flat (i.e. downright) mockery, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1126 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. φλήναφος Amelius cited in [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Vita Plotini” 17, 18 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; but πλατὺ γελάσαι, καταγελᾶν, laugh loud and rudely, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 7.39, “VS” 1.20.2; καταχρεμψαμένη πλατύ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 815, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__6 broad, of pronunciation, π. λέξις [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.6; φωνή 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.116; πλατέα λαλοῦσι πάντα οἱ Δωριεῖς 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 177. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__7 diffuse, λέξις [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 19. ] Refs 1st c.BC+] adverb -έως[[ [prev. passage]: _comparative_ -ύτερον] Refs] in fuller detail, διαλεξόμεθα [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.219, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.5, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.15.6 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; -υτέρως Tz.ad [[ 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 177] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: superlative -υτάτως[[ [prev. author] “H.” 12.890. ] Refs]
__7.b adverb -έως loosely, opposed to ἀκριβῶς, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.248 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__8 widespread, frequent, χρῆσις [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.332: _comparative_, [prev. work] 267. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__9 π. δρόμος, = Latin cursus clabularis, [[ 6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “Mag.” 3.61. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__II substantive πλατεῖα (i.e. ὁδός,[[compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.188, and see.above 1.1)] Refs 2nd c.AD+], ἡ, street, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 58, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.53, “OGI” 491.9 (Pergam.), LXX.Gen.19.2, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.52, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.10, NT.Matt.12.19; οἱ ἐν τῇ Σκυτικῇ π. τεχνεῖται “IGRom.” 4.790, compare 791, +others (from Apamea); hence Σεβαστὴ π. name of a guild, [prev. work]3.711 (from Sura)] NT+4th c.BC+]; ἡ ἱερωτάτη π. [[ “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 3960b6 (from Apamea). ] Refs]
__II.b (i.e. χείρ) flat of the hand, ταῖσι πλατείαις τυπτόμενος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1096; πλατείᾳ τῇ χειρί 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus “de Venenatis Animalibus” 5.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.c a kind of dish or cup, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 11(2).110.22, +others (Delos, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.d broad stripe or border, [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 108. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III salt, brackish, πλατυτέροισι ἐχρέωντο τοῖσι πόμασι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.108 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλατέα or πλατύτερα ὕδατα, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 358b4, 358a28 (but πλατὺς Ἑλλήσποντος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.86, 17.432 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], is not the salt, but the broad, Hellespont,[[compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 875 (Lyric poetry), wrongly explained by 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.41b)] Refs 4th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit pṛthú- 'broad', práthati 'spread out', etc. But in signification [[ 111 _cognate_ with Sanskrit ] Refs]pa[tnull]u- 'sharp', 'pungent', tripa[tnull]u 'the three saline substances'.)
