plássō

plássō πλάσσω “forme, knete, bilde, forme, gestalte”

Possibly from Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō, from earlier *plátʰyō, of uncertain origin. Beekes suspects the root to be Pre-Greek, due to its hypothetical quasi-Indo-European form *pldʰ-ye-ti featuring a combination of a plain stop *p and a voiced aspirate *dʰ, which is phonotactically disallowed in Indo-European. However, he does allow that the Greek term became conflated with Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”) during the language's development.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plás.sɔː/ → /ˈplas.so/ → /ˈpla.so/

Verb

πλάσσω • (plássō)

1. to form, mould, shape, sculpt
   1. to plaster
2. (figuratively) to form, train a skill
3. to imagine
4. to put in a certain form
5. (figuratively) to fabricate, forge