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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

  • ἰδοὺ περίπτυγμ’ ἀντίπηγοσ εὐκύκλου ὡσ οὐ γεγήρακ’ ἔκ τινοσ θεηλάτου, εὐρώσ τ’ ἄπεστι πλεγμάτων· (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics 4:2)
  • τῷ γὰρ ὕδατι τὴν διὰ τῶν πλεγμάτων ἀποφράττειν εἴσοδον ἡ ἄσφαλτοσ πέφυκεν, ἐντιθέασι τὸ παιδίον καὶ κατὰ τοῦ ποταμοῦ βαλόντεσ εἰάσαν ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ τὴν σωτηρίαν αὐτοῦ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 274:1)

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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