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πλήμμυρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλήμμυρα

Structure: πλημμυρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: = plhmmuri/s

Sense

  1. the flood-tide

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πλήμμυρα πλημμύρᾱ πλήμμυραι
Genitive πλημμύρᾱς πλημμύραιν πλημμυρῶν
Dative πλημμύρᾱͅ πλημμύραιν πλημμύραις
Accusative πλημμύρᾱν πλημμύρᾱ πλημμύρᾱς
Vocative πλημμύρᾱ πλημμύρᾱ πλήμμυραι

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

  • δέδοικα δ’ ἡσυχάζοντα Φαρνάκην αὖθισ ἐρεθίζειν καὶ κινεῖν, ὠκεανοῦ τε πλημμύρασ ὡσ λέγουσιν αὐτοὶ καὶ πορθμῶν ἐπιδόσεισ, διαχεομένων καὶ αὐξανομένων ὑπὸ τῆσ σελήνησ τῷ ἀνυγραίνεσθαι, παρατιθέμενοσ. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 2531)
  • Πυθέασ ὁ Μασσαλιώτησ τῇ πληρώσει τῆσ σελήνησ τὰσ πλημμύρασ γίνεσθαι τῇ δὲ μειώσει τὰσ ἀμπώτιδασ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. the flood-tide

Related

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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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