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πλέγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλέγμα πλέγματος

Structure: πλεγματ (Stem)

Etym.: ple/kw

Sense

  1. plaited work, wicker-work, wreaths, braids

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

  • μέλεται δέ οἱ οὔτέ τι πήρασ οὔτε φυτῶν τοσσῆνον, ὅσον περὶ πλέγματι γαθεῖ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 30)
  • ὃ δὴ καὶ προσῃκάζομεν τῷ τοῦ κύρτου πλέγματι, κατὰ μέσον διατεταμένον ἐκ πυρὸσ πεπλέχθαι πᾶν, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ὅσα ἔξωθεν, ἀέροσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 406:2)
  • ῥεῖά τισ ἡμερίδοσ στελέχη δύο σύμπλοκα λύσει, στρεπτά, πολυχρονίῳ πλέγματι συμφυέα, ἢ κείνουσ ̔φιλέοντασ, ὑπ’ ἀντιπόροισὶ τ’ ἀγοστοῖσ ὑγρὰ περιπλέγδην ἅψεα δησαμένουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 255 2:3)
  • διὸ λέγειν τε αὐτὸν ἀλλ’ οὐ μόνον ὀνομάζειν εἴπομεν, καὶ δὴ καὶ τῷ πλέγματι τούτῳ τὸ ὄνομα ἐφθεγξάμεθα λόγον. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 279:3)
  • συναγαγοῦσα αὐτῶν τὸν βίον ἡ βασιλικὴ τέχνη, πάντων μεγαλοπρεπέστατον ὑφασμάτων καὶ ἄριστον ἀποτελέσασα ὥστ’ εἶναι κοινόν τούσ τ’ ἄλλουσ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσι πάντασ δούλουσ καὶ ἐλευθέρουσ ἀμπίσχουσα, συνέχῃ τούτῳ τῷ πλέγματι, καὶ καθ’ ὅσον εὐδαίμονι προσήκει γίγνεσθαι πόλει τούτου μηδαμῇ μηδὲν ἐλλείπουσα ἄρχῃ τε καὶ ἐπιστατῇ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 327:1)

Synonyms

  1. plaited work

Related

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

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