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πλατεῖα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλατεῖα

Structure: πλατει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: v. platu/s.

Sense

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 αἱ πλατεῖαι Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐν βηρύλλῳ καὶ ἄνθρακι καὶ λίθῳ ἐκ Σουφεὶρ ψηφολογηθήσονται. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 13:17)
  • καὶ αἱ πλατεῖαι τῆσ πόλεωσ πλησθήσονται παιδαρίων καὶ κορασίων παιζόντων ἐν ταῖσ πλατείαισ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 8:5)
  • πλατεῖαι φιάλαι ὀμφαλωτοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 1062)
  • πλατεῖαι πάντοθεν λογίοισιν ἐντὶ πρόσοδοι νᾶσον εὐκλέα τάνδε κοσμεῖν· (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 6 14:1)
  • Τὰ δὲ τοιαῦτα ὁπόσα ἐξέσχε, καὶ, εἴ τε ἐμβληθῇ, εἴ τε μὴ, ἐπίδεσισ μὲν οὐκ ἐπιτήδειον, διάτασισ δὲ, σφαῖραι ποιηθεῖσαι, οἱαῖ πέδαισ, ἡ μὲν παρὰ σφυρὸν, ἡ δὲ παρὰ γόνυ, ἐσ κνήμην πλατεῖαι, προσηνέεσ, ἰσχυραὶ, κρίκουσ ἔχουσαι‧ Ῥάβδοι τε σύμμετροι κρανίησ καὶ μῆκοσ καὶ πάχοσ, ὥστε διατείνειν‧ ἱμάντια δὲ ἐξ ἄκρων ἀμφοτέρωθεν ἔχοντα εἰσ τοὺσ κρίκουσ ἐνδεδέσθαι, ὡσ τὰ ἄκρα ἐσ τὰσ σφαίρασ ἐνστηριζόμενα διαναγκάζῃ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 41.2)

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

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