Ancient Greek

Noun

πέπλος • ‎(péplos) m ‎(genitive πέπλου); second declension

1. any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil, funeral-urn, seat
2. upper garment or mantle in one piece, worn by women
3. peritoneum
4. wartweed

Descendants

• English: peplos
• Greek: πέπλος m ‎(péplos), πέπλο n ‎(péplo)

References

• πέπλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέπλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέπλος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πέπλος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πέπλος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πέπλος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• «πέπλος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dress idem, page 252.
  • garb idem, page 353.
  • garment idem, page 354.
  • grave-clothes idem, page 371.
  • raiment idem, page 669.
  • robe idem, page 719.
  • sheet idem, page 764.
  • shroud idem, page 771.
  • winding-sheet idem, page 980.