Etymograph

English

ploce

Ploce comes from Ancient Greek πλοκή ‘complication’, from πλέκω ‘to plait, twine, twist, weave, braid’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pleḱ-‘to fold, plait, weave’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*plékō‘to plait, weave’reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπλέκω‘to plait, twine, twist, weave, braid’
  4. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπλοκήplokḗ‘complication’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEplŏcē
  6. Englishtodayploce

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pleḱ-‘to fold, plait, weave’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*plékō‘to plait, weave’reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπλέκω‘to plait, twine, twist, weave, braid’
  4. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπλοκήplokḗ‘complication’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEplŏcē
  6. Englishtodayploce

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to fold, plait, weave’

complex, apply, display, reply, employment, explicit, imply, exploitation, replica, employ, exploit, fiasco, implicit, deploy, complication, complicate, flax, inexplicable, flack, accomplice, complicity, ply, implicate, supple, ploy, plexus, pliable, supplication, triplicate, flagon, explication, pliant, splay, 33 more

Today it means

noun A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- / ploce

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