Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πλεκτή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλεκτή

Structure: πλεκτ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a coil, wreath
  2. a twisted rope, cord, string

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

  • "καὶ γὰρ τοὺσ πίνακασ ἐφ’ ὧν τὰσ τροφὰσ προτίθενται τοιούτουσ ἔχουσιν οἱ δὲ χαλκοῦσ, οἱ δὲ κάνεα ξύλινα καὶ πλεκτά, τὸ δὲ πινόμενόν ἐστι παρὰ μὲν τοῖσ πλουτοῦσιν οἶνοσ ἐξ Ἰταλίασ καὶ τῆσ Μασσαλιητῶν χώρασ παρακομιζόμενοσ, ἄκρατοσ δ’ οὗτοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 367)
  • δέρμα κστ ον ὧδε κλαγγάνει όρωσ ἐρείδεται πλεκτα λάδοσ κ κόλλοπεσ δε αμματω ον καὶ τοῦτο λύπησ ἔστ’ ἄκεστρον καὶ παραψυκτήριον κείνῳ μόνον, χαίρει δ’ ἀλύων καί τι προσφωνῶν μέλοσ ξύμφωνον· (Sophocles, Ichneutae 25:23)
  • χὠ μὲν ὀϊστευτὴρ κεραὸν βιόν, ἁ δὲ λυρῳδὸσ τὰν χέλυν, ὡγρευτὴσ ὤπασε πλεκτὰ λίνα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1182)
  • Μᾶρεσ δὲ ἐπὶ μὲν τῇσι κεφαλῇσι κράνεα ἐπιχώρια πλεκτὰ εἶχον, ἀσπίδασ δὲ δερματίνασ μικρὰσ καὶ ἀκόντια. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 79 2:1)
  • τά τε πλεκτὰ παντοῖα ἐκ τούτου· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 28:3)

Synonyms

  1. a coil

  2. a twisted rope

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

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