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

  • θυμιαμάτων δ’ αὖραι διαψαίρουσι πλεκτάνην καπνοῦ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode4)
  • καὶ πλεκτάνην στιφρὰν σφόδρ’, ἐπὶ τούτοισ τέ που αἰσχυνόμενον ἧπαρ καπρίσκου σκατοφάγου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 70 1:1)
  • εἶναι δὲ τοῦτο νευρῶδεσ μέχρι εἰσ μέσην τὴν πλεκτάνην ἅπαν προσπεφυκόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1042)
  • "διὸ καὶ χείριστοί εἰσι κατὰ τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον, ἀποτίκτει δ’ ὁ μὲν πουλύπουσ ἢ εἰσ θαλάμασ ἢ εἰσ κεράμιον ἤ τι ἄλλο τοιοῦτο κοῖλον, καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέρασ πεντήκοντα ἐκ τῶν ᾠῶν πουλυπόδια ἐξέρπει ὥσπερ τὰ φαλάγγια πολλά, ὁ δὲ θῆλυσ πουλύπουσ ὁτὲ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσ ᾠοῖσ, ὁτὲ δ’ ἐπὶ τῷ στόματι προκάθηται τῆσ θαλάμησ, τὴν πλεκτάνην ἐπέχων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1047)
  • καὶ διὰ τοὔργον αὐτῷ γέγονε τοὔνομα ᾧ σοφίσματι καὶ τὴν σηπίαν χρῆσθαί φησιν ὁ Ἀριστοτέλησ καθίησι γὰρ ὥσπερ ὁρμιὰν ἀπὸ τοῦ τραχήλου πλεκτάνην, μηκύνεσθαί τε πόρρω χαλώσησ καὶ πάλιν συντρέχειν εἰσ ἑαυτὴν ἀναλαμβανούσησ ῥᾷστα πεφυκυῖαν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 27 6:3)

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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