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πλήσμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλήσμιος πλήσμιᾱ πλήσμιον

Structure: πλησμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pi/mplhmi

Sense

  1. filling, satisfying, satiety

Examples

  • περὶ δὲ τῶν ἐγχέλεων Ἱκέσιόσ φησιν ἐν τοῖσ περὶ ὕλησ ὡσ αἱ ἐγχέλεισ εὐχυλότεραι πάντων εἰσὶν ἰχθύων καὶ ὅτι εὐστομαχίᾳ διαφέρουσι τῶν πλείστων πλήσμιαι γάρ εἰσι καὶ πολύτροφοι, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ταρίχεσι τὰσ Μακεδονικὰσ ἐγχέλεισ κατατάττει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 521)

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

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