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περιπλοκή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιπλοκή

Structure: περιπλοκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: periple/kw

Sense

  1. a twining round, entanglement, intricacy

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

  • καὶ ὁ μὲν καθεύδων δῆθεν κατέκειτο ὲν τῷ μέσῳ, κατῄει δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ ὀροφῆσ ὡσ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀντὶ τῆσ Σελήνησ Ῥουτιλία τισ ὡραιοτάτη, τῶν Καίσαροσ οἰκονόμων τινὸσ γυνή, ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἐρῶσα τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ ἀντερωμένη ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ τοῦ ὀλεθρίου ἐκείνου ἀνδρὸσ φιλήματά τε ἐγίγνετο ἐν τῷ μέσῳ καὶ περιπλοκαί. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 39:3)

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

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