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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

  • κἄπειτα πλεκταῖσ σῶμα σὸν κλέπτειν λέγεισ πύργων καθιεῖσ’, ὡσ μένουσ’ ἀκουσίωσ; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 3:13)
  • καὶ πολλαὶσ ὑποθυμίδασ πλεκταὶσ ἀμπ’ ἀπαλᾷ δέρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 16 3:3)
  • "μάτην δὲ πόντου κυανέαισ δίναισ τραφεὶσ φλεβὸσ τροπωτὴρ πουλύπουσ, ἁλοὺσ βρόχων πλεκταῖσ ἀνάγκαισ, τῆσ τροχηλάτου κόρησ πίμπλησι λοπάδοσ στερροσώματον κύτοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52176)
  • Ἰχθύοσ ἀγρευτῆρεσ ὅμωσ δύο κεῖντο γέροντεσ, στρωσάμενοι βρύον αὐο͂ν ὑπὸ πλεκταῖσ καλύβαισι, κεκλιμένοι τοίχῳ τῷ φυλλίνῳ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 4)
  • τούτουσ μηδεὶσ τοὺσ ἱεροὺσ ὄντωσ θηρευτὰσ κωλυέτω ὅπου καὶ ὅπῃπερ ἂν ἐθέλωσιν κυνηγετεῖν, νυκτερευτὴν δὲ ἄρκυσιν καὶ πλεκταῖσ πιστὸν μηδεὶσ μηδέποτε ἐάσῃ μηδαμοῦ θηρεῦσαι· (Plato, Laws, book 7 225:2)

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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