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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

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

  • ἱστάμενοσ δὲ ἔπρεπε Πυθαγόρασ, Σάμιοσ σοφόσ, ἀλλ’ ἐν Ὀλύμπῳ ἐνδιάειν ἐδόκευε, φύσιν δ’ ἐβιάζετο χαλκοῦ, πλημμύρων νοερῇσι μεληδόσιν· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 24:1)

Synonyms

  1. the flood-tide

Related

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

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