Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πλεκτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλεκτός πλεκτή πλεκτόν

Structure: πλεκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ple/kw

Sense

  1. plaited, twisted, wicker, the twisted
  2. wreathed

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. plaited

  2. wreathed

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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