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πλεκτάνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλεκτάνη

Structure: πλεκταν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ple/kw

Sense

  1. anything twined or wreathed, a coil, wreath, spire, a wreath
  2. the meshes, web, tortuous

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πλεκτάνη πλεκτάνᾱ πλεκτάναι
Genitive πλεκτάνης πλεκτάναιν πλεκτανῶν
Dative πλεκτάνῃ πλεκτάναιν πλεκτάναις
Accusative πλεκτάνην πλεκτάνᾱ πλεκτάνᾱς
Vocative πλεκτάνη πλεκτάνᾱ πλεκτάναι

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

  • τὸ σῶμα, καθάπερ αἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ πολύποδοσ πλεκτάναι· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. anything twined or wreathed

Similar forms

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

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