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πλήμνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλήμνη

Structure: πλημν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: Perh. from plh/qw, the filled up or solid part of the wheel.

Sense

  1. the nave of a wheel

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

  • Ἐπὶ μὲν οὖν κλίνησ ποιέοντι, τοῦτο μὲν τῶν ποδῶν πρὸσ οὐδὸν χρὴ ἐρεῖσαι, πρὸσ δὲ τὸ ἕτερον, ξύλον ἰσχυρὸν πλάγιον παραβεβλῆσθαι, τὰ δὲ ὕπερθεν ὑπεροειδέα πρὸσ ταῦτα ἀντιστηρίζοντα διατείνειν, ἢ πλήμνασ κατορύξαντα, ἢ κλίμακα διαθέντα, ἀμφωτέρωθεν ὠθέειν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 38.11)
  • χωνευτοὶ δ’ ἦσαν οὗτοι πλήμνασ καὶ ἄντυγασ πήχεωσ καὶ ἡμίσουσ ἔχοντεσ τὴν διάμετρον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 106:2)

Synonyms

  1. the nave of a wheel

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

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