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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

  • τὰ μὲν οὖν ἔνδον ἐκ πυρὸσ συνεστήσατο τοῦ πλοκάνου ἅπαντα, τὰ δ’ ἐγκύρτια καὶ τὸ κύτοσ ἀεροειδῆ, καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὸ περιέστησεν τῷ πλασθέντι ζῴῳ τρόπον τοιόνδε. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 397:3)
  • πιμπλαμένου δὲ τοῦ πλοκάνου τῇ διαλύσει τῆσ σπείρασ, ἔφθασαν τῶν κυνηγῶν τινεσ προσιπτάμενοι, καὶ πρὸ τοῦ στραφῆναι τὸν ὄφιν ἐπὶ τὴν ἔξοδον κατελάβοντο δεσμοῖσ τὸ στόμιον πρόμηκεσ ὂν καὶ πεφιλοτεχνημένον πρὸσ ταύτην τὴν ὀξύτητα· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 37 5:1)

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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