Pleias

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Plias === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɫeː.i.as] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈplɛː.i.as] (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɫeː.jas] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈplɛː.jas] === Proper noun === Plēias f (genitive Plēiadis); third declension a Pleiad, one of the Seven Sisters (in the plural) the Pleiades (constellation) (transferred sense, poetic) a storm, rain ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “Pleias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Pleias”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “Pleias”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Pleias”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers