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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

  • σφῶϊ δ’ ἀποστρέψαντε πόδασ καὶ χεῖρασ ὕπερθεν ἐσ θάλαμον βαλέειν, σανίδασ δ’ ἐκδῆσαι ὄπισθε, σειρὴν δὲ πλεκτὴν ἐξ αὐτοῦ πειρήναντε κίον’ ἀν’ ὑψηλὴν ἐρύσαι πελάσαι τε δοκοῖσιν, ὥσ κεν δηθὰ ζωὸσ ἐὼν χαλέπ’ ἄλγεα πάσχῃ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 29:3)
  • σειρὴν δὲ πλεκτὴν ἐξ αὐτοῦ πειρήναντε κίον’ ἀν’ ὑψηλὴν ἔρυσαν πέλασάν τε δοκοῖσι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 30:6)
  • τῆλε δ’ ἀπὸ κρατὸσ βάλε δέσματα σιγαλόεντα, ἄμπυκα κεκρύφαλόν τε ἰδὲ πλεκτὴν ἀναδέσμην κρήδεμνόν θ’, ὅ ῥά οἱ δῶκε χρυσῆ Ἀφροδίτη ἤματι τῷ ὅτε μιν κορυθαίολοσ ἠγάγεθ’ Ἕκτωρ ἐκ δόμου Ηἐτίωνοσ, ἐπεὶ πόρε μυρία ἕδνα. (Homer, Iliad, Book 22 43:5)

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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