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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

  • Εἰ δέ τισ σφαίρασ δύο Ῥάψαιτο ἐκ σκύτεοσ αἰγυπτίου τοιαύτασ οἱάσ φοροῦσιν οἱ ἐν τῇσι μεγάλῃσι πέδῃσι πολλὸν χρόνον πεπεδημένοι, αἱ δὲ σφαῖραι ἔχοιεν ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν χιτῶνασ, τὰ μὲν πρὸσ τοῦ τρώματοσ βαθυτέρουσ, τὰ δὲ πρὸσ τῶν ἄρθρων βρ‧ χυτέρουσ, εἰε͂ν δὲ ὀγκηραὶ μὲν καὶ μαλθακαὶ, ἁρμόζουσαι δὲ, ἡ μὲν ἄνωθεν τῶν σφυρῶν, ἡ δὲ κάτωθεν τοῦ γούνατοσ‧ ἐκ δὲ πλαγίησ ἄκρησ δισσὰ ἡ κάτωθεν ἔχοι προσηρτημένα, ἢ ἁπλόου ἱμάντοσ, ἢ διπλόου, βραχέα ὥσπερ ἀγκύλασ, τὰ μέν τι τοῦ σφυροῦ ἑκατέρωθεν, τὰ δέ τι τοῦ γούνατοσ‧ καὶ ἡ ἄνωθεν σφαῖρα ἕτερα τοιαῦτα ἔχοι κατὰ τὴν ἰθυωρίην τὴν αὐτήν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 30.5)

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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