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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

  • πουλύποδοσ πλεκτὴ δ’ , ἂν πιλήσῃσ κατὰ καιρόν, ἑφθὴ τῆσ ὀπτῆσ, ἢν ᾖ μείζων, πολὺ κρείττων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 8 3:2)
  • καὶ ἔστι τοῦτο καλὸν ἐν τῷ τοιούτῳ εἴδει τῶν λόγων καὶ τὸ τὴν ἁπλότητα μάλιστα ἀπεργαζόμενον, ὅθεν καὶ εὐπορία πλεκτὴ γίνεται, καὶ ὁ λόγοσ ἐκ τῶν ἐπεγκυκλουμένων ἀφελὴσ φαίνεται, διά τε τὸ σεμνότερον γίνεσθαι τὸ λεγόμενον καὶ δι’ ἑτέρου ἐναργέστερον, ὅπερ λαλιᾶσ ἔργον μᾶλλον εἶναι φαίνεται. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 4:2)

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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