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related to baklava. The
Latin word
placenta is
derived from the Gr****
plakous (Ancient Gr****: πλακοῦς, gen. πλακοῦντος – plakountos, from πλακόεις –...
- from the Gr****
language plakous (πλακοῦς),
which means something "flat and broad". An
early Gr****
language mention of
plakous as a
dessert (or second...
- scholars, it is
stated that in
Ancient Gr**** cuisine,
placenta cake (or
plakous, πλακοῦς), and its
descendants in
Byzantine cuisine,
plakountas tetyromenous...
- BCE, the
ancient Gr****
poets Archestratos and
Antiphanes first mentioned plakous. Cato the Elder's
short work De agri
cultura ("On Farming") from about...
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comes from
Latin placenta,
which means "cake", from the Gr**** πλακοῦς
plakoûs, πλακουντ- plakount- "flat cake". As
shown by the
etymology of the word...
- from the Old
Norse word "kaka". The
ancient Gr****s
called cake πλακοῦς (
plakous),
which was
derived from the word for "flat", πλακόεις (plakoeis). It was...
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their battle shields. In
ancient Greece,
citizens made a
flatbread called plakous (πλακοῦς, gen. πλακοῦντος – plakountos)
which was
flavored with toppings...
- πλακόεντα/πλακοῦντα plakóenta/plakoúnta,
accusative of πλακόεις/πλακούς plakóeis/
plakoús, "flat, slab-like", with
reference to its round, flat
appearance in humans...
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through the
Byzantine Empire, when
early versions of this dish were
known as
plakous (savoury version). It was
borrowed into
Armenian as plagindi, plagunda...
- able to
identify the
hours cake from Solon's poem, he
describes it as a
plakous indicating it was a type of 'flat cake'.
Similar cakes are
described by...
