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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

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

  • κομᾶν τε γὰρ τοὺσ ἄρρενασ ὥσπερ τὰσ παρθένουσ ἐκέλευσεν ἐξανθιζομένουσ καὶ βοστρυχιζομένουσ καὶ κεκρυφάλοισ τὰσ πλοκαμίδασ ἀναδοῦντασ ἐνδύεσθαί τε ποικίλουσ καὶ ποδήρεισ χιτωνίσκουσ, καὶ χλανιδίοισ ἀμπέχεσθαι λεπτοῖσ καὶ μαλακοῖσ, καὶ δίαιταν ἔχειν ὑπὸ σκιαῖσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 9 6:1)
  • 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

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

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