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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">rib(s), side of the body</b>, metaph. <b class="b2">side of an area, of a geometrical figure, flank of an army</b> (Il.).<br />Other forms: usu. pl. <b class="b3">-αί</b>; <b class="b3">-όν</b>, usu. pl. <b class="b3">-ά</b> n.<br />Compounds: Very often as 2. member, e.g. <b class="b3">περί-πλευρος</b> [[going around the ribs]], [[covering the sides]] (E. in lyr.).<br />Derivatives: Dimin. <b class="b3">πλευρ-ία</b> pl. (Hp., Delph. inscr.), <b class="b3">-ιάς</b> f. [[side of an area]] (Tab. Heracl.; after <b class="b3">πεδι-άς</b> a.o.; cf. Chantraine Form. 354); <b class="b3">-ιαῖος</b> [[situated at the sides]] (Boeot. inscr.), <b class="b3">-ικός</b> [[belonging to the ribs]] (sch.); <b class="b3">-ίτης</b> m. [[connected to the ribs]], designation of a bone of the spine (Poll.), <b class="b3">-ῖτις</b> ([[νόσος]]) f. [[pleurisy]] (Hp., Ar.), also as pl.name = [[σκόρδιον]] (Ps.-Dsc.; because of the working, cf. Redard 75); <b class="b3">-ώματα</b> n. pl. = [[πλευρά]] (A.; poetic enlargement, Chantraine Form. 186); <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> m. meaning unclear, [[dam]]? (pap.); <b class="b3">-ών</b>, <b class="b3">-ῶνος</b> m. Aetol. PlN (Β 639 a.o.), Krahe ZONF 8, 159. -- Hypostasis <b class="b3">παρα-πλευρ-ίδια</b> n. pl. [[side-armors]] (X., Arr.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Formation like [[νευρά]] a.o., so to be enalysed in <b class="b3">πλε-υρ-ά</b>, <b class="b3">-όν</b> (Benveniste Origines 112 f.). Without certain explanation. If origin. [[side]], one would like with Benveniste l.c. to connect with the root <b class="b2">pelā-</b> [[broaden]] ([[πέλαγος]], [[πλάξ]], [[παλάμη]] a.o.). If however, what is much more probable, prop. [[rib]], this etymology is is irrelevant. Or prop. "what belongs at the side (<b class="b3">*πλῆ-Ϝαρ</b>)"? -- Older hypotheses in Bq (rejected).