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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

  • ἐπειδὰν γὰρ ἐκ διαστήματοσ αὐτομάτωσ κράδαι συμπέσωσι, ἐμψύχων περιπλοκῇ ἐν τῷ μένουσιν ἡνωμέναι καθάπερ ἀπὸ ῥίζησ μιᾶσ, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἀνατρέχουσιν καὶ ζωοφυτοῦσιν διὸ καὶ τοῖσ ἡμέροισ φυλακὴν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν κατασκευάζουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 29 3:1)
  • "ἡ γὰρ περιπλοκὴ κωλύουσα τὴν διάλυσιν μᾶλλον ἐπιτείνει τὴν σύγκρουσιν, ὥστε μήτε μῖξιν εἶναι μήτε κόλλησιν ἀλλὰ ταραχὴν καὶ μάχην κατ’ αὐτοὺσ τὴν λεγομένην γένεσιν· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 10 1:10)
  • ] τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ αἱ μὲν εἰσ μακρὰν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων διιστάμεναι, αἱ δὲ αὐτοῦ τὸν παλμὸν ἴσχουσιν, ὅταν τύχωσι τῇ περιπλοκῇ κεκλειμέναι ἢ στεγαζόμενοι παρὰ τῶν πλεκτικῶν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 43:3)
  • ἥ τε στερεότησ ἡ ὑπάρχουσα αὐταῖσ κατὰ τὴν σύγκρουσιν τὸν ἀποπαλμὸν ποιεῖ, ἐφ’ ὁπόσον ἂν ἡ περιπλοκὴ τὴν ἀποκατάστασιν ἐκ τῆσ συγκρούσεωσ διδῷ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 44:2)

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

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