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periplus

/ˈpɛɹɪˌplʌs/

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From Latin periplūs (“account of a voyage”) and Ancient Greek περίπλους (períplous, “voyage, naval manouver, account of a voyage”), from περί (perí, “peri-: around”) + πλοῦς (ploûs, “voyage”), from πλεῖν (pleîn, “to sail”). Cf. French périple, Spanish periplo, & Italian periplo.

noun peripluses · peripli · periploi · periplous

An account of a voyage, particularly those of Hanno and Arrian, recording ports and coastal landmarks. Then follows a Periplus of the Euxine-Sea, which bears the name of Arrian, and was undoubtedly written by him in the time of Adrian, as the inſcription ſhews.
A voyage along a coast. In the great Ocean, California, its gulph, and the Vermilion Sea were known to Cortes; Cabrillo proceeded along the coast of New California as far as the 43d degree of north latitude; Galbi advanced to the 57th degree. Amidst so many real peripluses, Maldonado, Juan de Fuca, and Admiral de Fonte, pl
uncommon Synonym of circuit: the path or distance around a coast.
Similar: circuit
uncommon Synonym of circumnavigation: a voyage around an island or the world. All the four books and the photograph are, in various degrees of literality or metaphoricity, about a periplus, the circumnavigation of an entire world, be that Homer's Mediterranean, Dante's hell, purgatory and paradise, Joyce's Dublin, or the cosmos of The Cantos, stretching across all the contine
Similar: circumnavigation

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noun record of ports and coastal landmarks

Ελληνικά	περίπλους períplous

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@misc{periplus_2026,
  title = {periplus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/periplus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}