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κυματοπλήξ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυματοπλήξ κυματοπλῆγος

Structure: κυματοπληγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: plh/ssw

Sense

  1. wave-beaten

Declension

Third 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

  • ὥσθ’ ἡνίκ’ ἂν ἢ περὶ νήσουσ ἢ περὶ τὴν Ἀσίην που ἁλῷ γῆν ἢ περὶ Κρήτην, λεπτὸσ καὶ στερεὸσ καὶ κυματοπλὴξ ἀφικνεῖται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 57 1:3)
  • ἐν ᾧ τλάμων ὅδ’, οὐκ ἐγὼ μόνοσ, πάντοθεν βόρειοσ ὥσ τισ ἀκτὰ κυματοπλὴξ χειμερία κλονεῖται, ὣσ καὶ τόνδε κατ’ ἄκρασ δειναὶ κυματοαγεῖσ ἆται κλονέουσιν ἀεὶ ξυνοῦσαι, αἱ μὲν ἀπ’ ἀελίου δυσμᾶν, αἱ δ’ ἀνατέλλοντοσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, epode1)

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

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