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πλαταμών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλαταμών πλαταμῶνος

Structure: πλαταμων (Stem)

Etym.: platu/s

Sense

  1. a flat stone, ledges of rock

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

  • Σιληνὸσ ᾤκει ἐπὶ τοῦ πλαταμῶνοσ πλησίον τῶν Εὐαλκίδεω. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 231)
  • αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Ἑρμῆσ χαρμόφρων εἰρύσατο πίονα ἔργα λείῳ ἐπὶ πλαταμῶνι καὶ ἔσχισε δώδεκα μοίρασ κληροπαλεῖσ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 13:9)
  • ἀπὸ δ’ εἵματ’ ἐπήτριμα νηήσαντο λείῳ ἐπὶ πλαταμῶνι, τὸν οὐκ ἐπέβαλλε θάλασσα κύμασι, χειμερίη δὲ πάλαι ἀποέκλυσεν ἅλμη. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 7:30)
  • οὐ γάρ σευ μήτηρ ἐπιτύμβια κωκύουσα εἶδεν ἁλίξαντον σὸν μόρον εἰνάλιον ἀλλὰ σ1’ ἐρημαῖοί τε καὶ ἄξεινοι πλαταμῶνεσ δέξαντ’ Αἰγαίησ γείτονεσ ἠιόνοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4042)
  • μέχρι μὲν γὰρ δέκα σταδίων εὔγεων καὶ ὀρυκτὴν εἶναι, διορωρύχθαι δ’ ἐπὶ πλάτοσ πλεθριαῖον, εἶθ’ ὑψηλὸν εἶναι πλαταμῶνα σταδιαῖον σχεδόν τι τὸ μῆκοσ, ὅσον οὐκ ἐνὸν ἐκλατομηθῆναι δι’ ὅλου μέχρι θαλάσσησ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter fragments 80:5)

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

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