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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

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

  • "ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον εἰκόνι τὸ συμβαῖνον ἐνδείκνυται, τοῖσ ὑπὸ τῶν πλοκάνων καὶ ὀργάνων τῶν περὶ τὴν τοῦ σίτου κάθαρσιν σειομένοισ καὶ ἀναλικμωμένοισ ὁμοίωσ λέγων τὰ στοιχεῖα σείοντα τὴν ὕλην ὑπ’ ἐκείνησ; (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 375)
  • τὰ δὲ κινούμενα ἄλλα ἄλλοσε ἀεὶ φέρεσθαι διακρινόμενα, ὥσπερ τὰ ὑπὸ τῶν πλοκάνων τε καὶ ὀργάνων τῶν περὶ τὴν τοῦ σίτου κάθαρσιν σειόμενα καὶ ἀνικμώμενα τὰ μὲν πυκνὰ καὶ βαρέα ἄλλῃ, τὰ δὲ μανὰ καὶ κοῦφα εἰσ ἑτέραν ἵζει φερόμενα ἕδραν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 224:1)

Synonyms

  1. a plaited rope

Related

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

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