πέπλος

Maybe a reduplicated formation from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”) and so cognate with the Ancient Greek suffix -πλόος (-plóos).

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

1. any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil
2. upper garment or full-length mantle in one piece, worn by women
3. (at Athens) embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea
4. (less frequent) man's robe or cloak, especially of long Persian dresses
5. (anatomy) peritoneum
6. wartweed (Euphorbia peplus)

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• → English: peplos
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• → Italian: peplo

• “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 981.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN