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πλόκανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλόκανον πλόκανου

Structure: πλοκαν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ple/kw

Sense

  1. a plaited rope

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πλόκανον πλοκάνω πλόκανα
Genitive πλοκάνου πλοκάνοιν πλοκάνων
Dative πλοκάνῳ πλοκάνοιν πλοκάνοις
Accusative πλόκανον πλοκάνω πλόκανα
Vocative πλόκανον πλοκάνω πλόκανα

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

  • κατεσκεύασαν ἀπὸ σχοίνου πυκνῆσ περιφερὲσ πλόκανον, τῷ μὲν τύπῳ τοῖσ κύρτοισ ἐμφερέσ, τῷ δὲ μεγέθει καὶ τῇ διαλήψει τῆσ χώρασ δυνάμενον δέξασθαι τὸν ὄγκον τοῦ θηρίου. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 37 1:2)
  • κατοπτεύσαντεσ οὖν τὸν φωλεὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν ὡρ́αν τῆσ τε ἐπὶ τὴν νομὴν ἐξόδου καὶ πάλιν τῆσ ἐπανόδου, ὡσ τάχισθ’ ὡρ́μησεν ἐπὶ τὴν ἄγραν τὴν συνήθη τῶν ἑτερογενῶν ζῴων, τὸ μὲν προϋπάρχον τοῦ φωλεοῦ στόμα λίθοισ εὐμεγέθεσι καὶ γῇ συνῳκοδόμησαν, τὸν δὲ πλησίον τῆσ λόχμησ τόπον ὑπόνομον ποιήσαντεσ καὶ τὸ πλόκανον εἰσ αὐτὸν ἐνθέντεσ ἐναντίον ἐποίησαν τὸ στόμιον, ὥστε ἐξ ἑτοίμου τῷ θηρίῳ τὴν εἴσοδον ὑπάρχειν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 37 2:1)
  • ἐξελκύσαντεσ δὲ τὸ πλόκανον καὶ φάλαγγασ ὑποθέντεσ μετέωρον ἐξῆραν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 37 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. a plaited rope

Related

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

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