Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φλιά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φλιά

Structure: φλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the doorposts, jambs

Declension

First 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

  • Σαμψὼν δέ, οὐ γὰρ λανθάνουσιν αὐτὸν ταῦτα μηχανησάμενοι, περὶ μεσοῦσαν ἤδη τὴν νύκτα ἀναστὰσ ἐνράσσει ταῖσ πύλαισ, αὐταῖσ τε φλιαῖσ καὶ μοχλοῖσ ὅση τε ἄλλη περὶ αὐταῖσ ἦν ξύλωσισ ἀράμενοσ κατωμαδὸν εἰσ τὸ ὑπὲρ Ἑβρῶνοσ ὄροσ φέρων κατατίθησιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 396:1)
  • Οἶκοσ ἦν μέγασ καὶ καλὸσ πολλοῖσ στύλοισ ἐρηρεισμένοσ, ὃν εἰσ τὰσ κρίσεισ καὶ τὴν τῶν πραγμάτων διάγνωσιν πλῆθοσ ὑποδέξασθαι καὶ χωρῆσαι σύνοδον ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ δίκασ συνεληλυθότων κατεσκεύασεν ἑκατὸν μὲν πηχῶν τὸ μῆκοσ εὖροσ δὲ πεντήκοντα τὸ δ’ ὕψοσ τριάκοντα, κίοσι μὲν τετραγώνοισ ἀνειλημμένον ἐκ κέδρου πᾶσιν, ἐστεγασμένον δὲ Κορινθίωσ, ἰσομέτροισ δὲ φλιαῖσ καὶ θυρώμασι τριγλύφοισ ἀσφαλῆ τε ὁμοῦ καὶ κεκαλλωπισμένον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 169:1)
  • καὶ μὴν ὁ τὰσ ὀπισθοδόμουσ στήλασ καὶ τὰσ ἐν ταῖσ φλιαῖσ τῶν νεῶν προξενίασ ἐξευρηκὼσ Τίμαιόσ ἐστιν. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 11 2:1)

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

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