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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

  • λέγεται δ’ αὐτῶν τὸν ἄρρενα ἕλκειν αἰδοιῶδέσ τι ἐν μιᾷ τῶν πλεκτανῶν ἐν ᾗ αἱ δύο μεγάλαι κοτυληδόνεσ εἰσίν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1041)
  • "ἐπαναστραφεὶσ δ’ ἐπιπλεῖ ἄνω ποιήσασ δύο τῶν πλεκτανῶν, αἳ μεταξὺ αὑτῶν λεπτὸν ὑμένα ἔχουσιν διαπεφυκότα, ὡσ καὶ τῶν ὀρνίθων οἱ πόδεσ ὁρῶνται μεταξὺ τῶν δακτύλων δερμάτινον ὑμένα ἔχοντεσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 104 1:6)

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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