Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

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

  • λοχῶντά τε γὰρ ἐπιτηρεῖ καὶ ἀντίον αὐτῷ ὁρᾷ ἐκκλίνουσα τὴν ὁρμήν, ὡσ μὴ ἁλίσκοιτο σαγηνευθεῖσα καὶ περιπεσοῦσα ταῖσ τοῦ θηρίου πλεκτάναισ, τὴν μὲν γὰρ ἀνδρίαν καὶ τὴν ἀλκὴν αὐτῆσ οὐχ ἡμᾶσ χρὴ λέγειν, ἀλλ’ ὃσ μεγαλοφωνότατοσ τῶν ποιητῶν Ὅμηροσ· (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 5:2)
  • καὶ χαίρουσι δὲ τῶν φυτῶν ταῖσ ἐλαίαισ καὶ πολλάκισ εὑρίσκονται ταῖσ πλεκτάναισ περιειληφότεσ τὸ στέλεχοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1035)
  • ἐν Φοίνικι λέγων καὶ τὸν πετραῖον πλεκτάναισ ἀναίμοσι στυγῶ μεταλλακτῆρα πουλύπουν χροόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 106 3:1)
  • κοτύλη δὲ καλεῖται καὶ ἡ τοῦ ἰσχίου κοιλότησ, καὶ αἱ τοῦ πολύποδοσ ἐν ταῖσ πλεκτάναισ ἐπιφύσεισ παραγώγωσ κοτυληδόνεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 57 4:7)
  • ὀσφρητικοῦ γευστικοῦ ἁπτικοῦ, ἕκτου δὲ φωνητικοῦ, ἑβδόμου δὲ σπερματικοῦ, ὀγδόου δ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἡγεμονικοῦ, ἀφ’ οὗ ταῦτα πάντα ἐπιτέταται διὰ τῶν οἰκείων ὀργάνων προσφερῶσ ταῖσ τοῦ πολύποδοσ πλεκτάναισ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. anything twined or wreathed

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

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