proper noun · femininethird declension
Plēias
Plēias f (genitive Plēiadis)
Classical[ˈpɫeː.i.as]Ecclesiastical[ˈplɛː.i.as]
Meaning
- a Pleiad, one of the Seven Sisters
Nec superum rector mala tanta Phoronidos ultra ferre potest natumque vocat, quem lucida partu Pleias enixa est letoque det imperat Argum.
Now the king of the gods can no longer stand Phoronis’s great sufferings, and he calls his son, born of the shining Pleiad, and orders him to kill Argus.8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.668 - in pluralthe Pleiades (constellation)
- poetica storm, rain
Modo saeva quierunt aequora. Sic portus fugeret ratis, aspera si te Plias in adversae tenuisset litore Thraces.
c. 90 CE, Valerius Flaccius, Argonautica 2.405
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Plēias | Plēiadēs Pliadēs |
| genitive | Plēiadis Pliadis | Plēiadum Pliadum |
| dative | Plēiadī Pliadī | Plēiadibus Pliadibus |
| accusative | Plēiadem Pliadem | Plēiadēs Pliadēs |
| ablative | Plēiade Pliade | Plēiadibus Pliadibus |
| vocative | Plēias | Plēiadēs Pliadēs |
Plēïas and Plējas (dissyl.), (Plī^as), ădis, f., = Πληϊάς and Πλειάς.
I. One of the Seven Stars, a Pleiad; usually in plur.: Pleiades (Pliades) = Πλειάδες, the constellation of the Seven Stars, the Pleiades or Pleiads (pure Lat. Vergiliae), acc. to the myth, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione (Electra, Halcyone, Celaeno, Maia, Sterope, Taygete, and Merope):
Pleïas enixa est, Ov. M. 1, 670: Plias, Stat. S. 1, 6, 22; Ov. F. 3, 105: Plĭadum nivosum Sidus, Stat. S. 1, 3, 95.—II. Poet., transf., a storm or rain, Val. Fl. 4, 268; 2, 405:
Pliada movere, to cause the Pleiads to rise, id. 2, 357.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Plēïas or Plēas (Plīas) adis, f
, Πληϊάς or Πλειάς, a Pleiad, one of the seven stars, O.— Plur, the Pleiades, Pleiads, V., H., O.
Origins
From Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes).