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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

  • τὰ γὰρ ἀποπαλλόμενα σμικρὰ σώματα τῆσ ἡρακλείασ λίθου τοιούτοισ ἑτέροισ περιπλέκεσθαι μορίοισ τοῦ σιδήρου κἄπειτα διὰ τῆσ περιπλοκῆσ ταύτησ μηδαμοῦ φαινομένησ ἐπισπᾶσθαι βαρεῖαν οὕτωσ οὐσίαν οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπωσ ἄν τισ πεισθείη. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1417)
  • "διὸ καὶ περιπλοκῆσ δεῖται καὶ στηρίγματοσ, αὐτὸσ ἑαυτὸν ἀνέχειν καὶ ποδηγεῖν ἀδυνατῶν δι’ ἔνδειαν θερμότητοσ, ἧσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 6:9)

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

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