Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πλεθριαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλεθριαῖος πλεθριαῖη πλεθριαῖον

Structure: πλεθριαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ple/qron

Sense

  1. broad or long

Examples

  • ταύτην δὴ κύκλῳ καὶ τοὺσ τροχοὺσ καὶ τὴν γέφυραν πλεθριαίαν τὸ πλάτοσ οὖσαν ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν λιθίνῳ περιεβάλλοντο τείχει, πύργουσ καὶ πύλασ ἐπὶ τῶν γεφυρῶν κατὰ τὰσ τῆσ θαλάττησ διαβάσεισ ἑκασταχόσε ἐπιστήσαντεσ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 68:2)

Synonyms

  1. broad or long

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

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