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πηκτή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πηκτή

Structure: πηκτ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: phkto/s

Sense

  1. a net or cage set
  2. cream-cheese

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

  • αἰρέσθω λαβὼν πηκτῶν πρὸσ οἴκουσ κλιμάκων προσαμβάσεισ, ὡσ πασσαλεύσῃ κρᾶτα τριγλύφοισ τόδε λέοντοσ ὃν πάρειμι θηράσασ’ ἐγώ. (Euripides, episode 1:4)
  • καὶ νῦν ἕτοιμόσ εἰμι τἀμαυτοῦ λαβὼν στρατὸν μὲν ἔξω τῆσδ’ ἀποστεῖλαι χθονόσ, οἰκεῖν δὲ τὸν ἐμὸν οἶκον ἀνὰ μέροσ λαβὼν καὶ τῷδ’ ἀφεῖναι τὸν ἴσον αὖθισ <αὖ> χρόνον, καὶ μήτε πορθεῖν πατρίδα μήτε προσφέρειν πύργοισι πηκτῶν κλιμάκων προσαμβάσεισ, ἃ μὴ κυρήσασ τῆσ δίκησ πειράσομαι δρᾶν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 8:1)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐγγὺσ μὲν χρυσοῦ τῶν μερῶν, εἴδη δὲ πλείονα ἑνὸσ ἔχον, πυκνότητι δέ, τῇ μὲν χρυσοῦ πυκνότερον ὄν, καὶ γῆσ μόριον ὀλίγον καὶ λεπτὸν μετασχόν, ὥστε σκληρότερον εἶναι, τῷ δὲ μεγάλα ἐντὸσ αὑτοῦ διαλείμματα ἔχειν κουφότερον, τῶν λαμπρῶν πηκτῶν τε ἓν γένοσ ὑδάτων χαλκὸσ συσταθεὶσ γέγονεν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 269:2)

Synonyms

  1. cream-cheese

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

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