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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

  • χὣ μέν τισ ἐσ θάλασσαν ὡρμήθη ποσίν, ἄλλοσ δὲ πλεκτὰσ ἐξανῆπτεν ἀγκύλασ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 7:12)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀνήτω μὲν περὶ ταῖσ δέραισι περθέτω πλεκτὰσ ὑποθυμίδασ τίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 16 3:1)
  • καὶ Ἀνακρέων πλεκτὰσ δ’ ὑποθυμίδασ περὶ στήθεσι λωτίνασ ἔθεντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 16 3:4)
  • Σκύθασ δ’ ἀφίξῃ νομάδασ, οἳ πλεκτὰσ στέγασ πεδάρσιοι ναίουσ’ ἐπ’ εὐκύκλοισ ὄχοισ ἑκηβόλοισ τόξοισιν ἐξηρτυμένοι· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 2:2)
  • ἡ πάροσ ἀγλαϊῄσι μετάρσιοσ, ἡ πλοκαμῖδασ σειομένη πλεκτὰσ, καὶ σοβαρευομένη, ἡ μεγαλαυχήσασα καθ’ ἡμετέρησ μελεδώνησ, γήραϊ ῥικνώδησ, τὴν πρὶν ἀφῆκε χάριν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2731)

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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