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ἄπλοος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπλοος

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + πλο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ple/w

Sense

  1. not sailing, unfit for sea, not sea-worthy, less fit for sea
  2. not navigable

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Κνήμησ δὲ δύο, ἄνωθεν καὶ κάτωθεν ξυνεχόμενα, κατὰ μέσον δὲ διέχοντα σμικρόν‧ τὸ ἔξωθεν, κατὰ τὸν σμικρὸν δάκτυλον λεπτότερον βραχεῖ, πλεῖστον δὲ ταύτῃ διεχούσῃ καὶ σμικροτέρῃ Ῥοπῇ κατὰ γόνυ, καὶ ὁ τένων ἐξ αὐτοῦ πέφυκεν, ὁ παρὰ τὴν ἰγγύην ἔξω‧ ἔχουσι δὲ κάτωθεν κοινὴν ἐπίφυσιν, πρὸσ ἣν ὁ ποὺσ κινέεται‧ ἄλλην δὲ ἄνωθεν ἔχουσιν ἐπίφυσιν, ἐν ᾗ τὸ τοῦ μηροῦ ἄρθρον κινέεται, ἁπλόον καὶ εὐσταλὲσ ὡσ ἐπὶ μήκει‧ εἶδοσ κονδυλῶδεσ, ἔχον ἐπιμυλίδα‧ αὐτὸσ δ’ ἔγκυ ρτοσ ἔξω καὶ ἔμπροσθεν‧ ἡ δὲ κεφαλὴ ἐπίφυσίσ ἐστι στρογγύλη, ἐξ ἧσ τὸ νεῦρον τὸ ἐν τῇ κοτύλῃ τοῦ ἰσχίου πέφυκεν‧ ὑποπλάγιον δὲ καὶ τοῦτο προσήρτηται, ἧσσον δὲ βραχίονοσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 1.2)

Synonyms

  1. not navigable

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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