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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 λεπτυνῶ αὐτοὺσ ὡσεὶ χνοῦν κατὰ πρόσωπον ἀνέμου, ὡσ πηλὸν πλατειῶν λεανῶ αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 17:43)
  • καὶ ἀδικία, καὶ οὐκ ἐξέλιπεν ἐκ τῶν πλατειῶν αὐτῆσ τόκοσ καὶ δόλοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 54:12)
  • ὅτι ἀνέβη θάνατοσ διὰ τῶν θυρίδων ὑμῶν, εἰσῆλθεν εἰσ τὴν γῆν ὑμῶν τοῦ ἐκτρῖψαι νήπια ἔξωθεν καὶ νεανίσκουσ ἀπὸ τῶν πλατειῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 9:21)
  • αὕτη δ’ ἔχει τὸ μὲν φύλλον σκολυμῶδεσ, ὀρθὴ δὲ καὶ εὐαυξὴσ καὶ ἀπαράβλαστόσ ἐστιν ἐκ τοῦ καυλοῦ, τῶν δὲ πλατειῶν οὕτω τινὲσ γίνονται πλατύκαυλοι ὥστ’ ἐνίουσ καὶ θύραισ χρῆσθαι κηπουρικαῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 79 1:5)
  • πολλῶν δὲ συστραφέντων καὶ ἀγαθῶν ἐπιρρωσθεὶσ ἐνέβαλε τῷ δεξιῷ τῶν πολεμίων καὶ τρεψάμενοσ ἐδίωκεν, ὑπὸ θυμοῦ καὶ φιλοτιμίασ ἀταμιεύτωσ ἐπισπασθεὶσ εἰσ χωρία σκολιὰ καὶ μεστὰ δένδρων πεφυτευμένων καὶ τάφρων πλατειῶν, ἐν οἷσ ἐπιθεμένου τοῦ Κλεομένουσ ἔπεσε λαμπρῶσ ἀγωνισάμενοσ τὸν κάλλιστον τῶν ἀγώνων ἐπὶ θύραισ τῆσ πατρίδοσ, οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι φεύγοντεσ εἰσ τὴν φάλαγγα καὶ συνταράξαντεσ τοὺσ ὁπλίτασ ὅλον τὸ στράτευμα τῆσ ἥττησ ἐνέπλησαν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 37 2:1)

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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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