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πλέκος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλέκος πλέκεος

Structure: πλεκο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ple/kw

Sense

  1. wicker-work

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

  • τί δ’ ὦ τάλασ σε τοῦδ’ ἔχει πλέκουσ χρέοσ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 3:1)
  • ἀπέπτυσ’ ἐχθροῦ φωτὸσ ἔχθιστον πλέκοσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, strophe 3 1:7)
  • αὐτὰρ ὅγ’ ἀνθερίκοισι καλὰν πλέκει ἀκριδοθήραν σχοίνῳ ἐφαρμόσδων· (Theocritus, Idylls, 29)

Synonyms

  1. wicker-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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