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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

  • διὰ πολλῶν μὲν γὰρ δήπου, ἔφη, ξυλίνων σκευῶν καὶ πλεκτῶν ὁρμίζεται ναῦσ καὶ ἀνάγεται, διὰ πολλῶν δὲ τῶν κρεμαστῶν καλουμένων πλεῖ, πολλοῖσ δὲ μηχανήμασιν ἀνθώπλισται πρὸσ τὰ πολέμια πλοῖα, πολλὰ δὲ ὅπλα τοῖσ ἀνδράσι συμπεριάγει, πάντα δὲ σκεύη ὅσοισπερ ἐν οἰκίᾳ χρῶνται ἄνθρωποι τῇ συσσιτίᾳ ἑκάστῃ κομίζει· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 13:1)
  • καὶ τὰσ μὲν συνοχηδὸν ἀνέκδρομοσ ὤχμασε θώμιγξ, τὸν δὲ μόνον πλεκτῶν αὖθι μεθῆκε λίνων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3432)
  • ἀπηρμένων δὲ τῶν πρώτων τραπεζῶν, ἧκέ τισ Ἡρώδῃ τῷ ῥήτορι παρὰ γνωρίμου νενικηκότοσ ἐγκωμίῳ φοίνικα καὶ στέφανόν τινα τῶν πλεκτῶν κομίζων. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 3:1)

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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