What is plasticity?
From Dictionary.com:plas-tic-i-ty [pla-stis-i-tee]
“2. the capability of being molded, receiving shape, or being made to assume a desired form: the plasticity of social institutions; the great plasticity of clay.- Normally that plasticity peaks in the first several months of life, but at different times for different skills.
- Scientists are searching for ways to both boost and focus this innate plasticity, thus improving neural repair.
- The plasticity of the brain provides life-course opportunities for resilience and enhanced mental health.
- The story of reading’s development is a complex tale of equal parts human invention and neural plasticity.
Origin: 1775-85; plastic + -ity
Plastic [plas-tik]
Noun
Often, plastics, any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
capable of being molded or of receiving form: clay and other plastic substances.
having the power of molding or shaping formless or yielding material: the plastic forces of nature.
being able to create, especially within an art form; having the power to give form or formal expression: the
plastic imagination of great poets and composers.
Origin: 1625-35; 1900-10 for def. 1; < Latin plasticus that may be molded < Greek plastikos. See –plast, -ic
Related forms
Adverbs: Plastically, plasticly.
Noun and Adjective: nonplastic
Adjective: unplastic
Synonyms: pliant, flexible, amenable”
Plastikos
From WordAZ“the word plastic is derived from the greek πλαστικός (plastikos) meaning capable of being shaped or molded, from πλαστός (plastos)”
Plastika (Wiktionary.org / Plastika)
From Latin plasticus (“of molding”), from Ancient Greek πλαστικός (plastikos) (this entry does not exist), from πλάσσω (plassō, “I mold, form”).Ancient Greek
πλάσσω (plassō, “I mold, form”).
Alternative Forms: πλάττω (plattō) (Attic Greek)From Wiktionary.org, “Attic Greek is the prestige dialect of Ancient Greek that was spoken in Attica, which includes Athens. Of the ancient dialects, it is the most similar to later Greek, and is the standard form of the language studied in courses of "Ancient Greek". It is sometimes included in Ionic.”
Etymology: Uncertain. Seems to come from * πλάθιω.
Pronunciation:
Ancient Greek phonology is the study of the phonology, or pronunciation, of Ancient Greek. Because of the passage of time, the original pronunciation of Ancient Greek, like that of all ancient languages, can never be known with absolute certainty. Linguistic reconstructions have been widely debated in the past; however, a good approximation can be established and there is now a consensus in scholarship.
(5th BC Attic): IPA: /plás̚sɔ͜ɔ/
πλάσσω (plassō) future: πλάσω aorist: ἔπλασα perfect: πέπλακα aorist passive: ἐπλάσθην
3. I plaster
4. I form in the mind, imagine
5. I re-form, put in a different manner
