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πλοκαμίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλοκαμίς πλοκαμῖδος

Structure: πλοκαμιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = plo/kamos

Sense

  1. a lock or braid of hair, curling hair

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πλοκαμίς πλοκαμίδε πλοκαμίδες
Genitive πλοκαμίδος πλοκαμίδοιν πλοκαμίδων
Dative πλοκαμίδι πλοκαμίδοιν πλοκαμίσιν*
Accusative πλοκαμίδα πλοκαμίδε πλοκαμίδας
Vocative πλοκαμί πλοκαμίδε πλοκαμίδες

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

  • καὶ ταῦτα αἰσχύνησ ἀνάπλεα καὶ ταῦτα ἔπρασσεν αὐτὸσ οὐκ ἀπηλλαγμένοσ ἔν τινων τελεταῖσ μυστηρίων, ἃσ αὐτὸσ συνίστατο, στολάσ τε ἐνδυόμενοσ γυναικείουσ καί τινων περιθέσεισ πλοκαμίδων ἐπινοῶν ἄλλα τε ὁπόσα ἐπικαταψεύσασθαι θηλύτητα τῆσ ὄψεωσ ἔμελλεν, αὐτὸσ τὴν ἐπὶ τοιούτοισ αἰσχύνην ἐτόλμα Χαιρέᾳ προσκαλεῖν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 36:1)

Synonyms

  1. a lock or braid of hair

Similar forms

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

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