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πλοχμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλοχμός πλοχμοῦ

Structure: πλοχμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. locks, braids of hair
  2. the tendrils

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

  • χρύσεοι δὲ παρειάων ἑκάτερθεν πλοχμοὶ βοτρυόεντεσ ἐπερρώοντο κιόντι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 11:3)
  • ὠμηστὰν δ’ ἔτραπε φυζαλέον, φθόγγον ὑποδδείσαντα πελώριον εἵνεκα τοῦδε πλοχμοὶ συρικτᾶν κεῖνται ἀπ’ ἀκρεμόνων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 237 1:2)
  • Εὐφόρβου γε μὴν τοῦ καλλίστου τῶν Τρώων ἀποθανόντοσ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ὠδύρετο λέγων, αἵματί οἱ δεύοντο κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι, πλοχμοί θ̓ οἳ χρυσῷ τε καὶ ἀργύρῳ ἐσφήκωντο· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 19)
  • αἵματί οἱ δεύοντο κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι πλοχμοί θ’, οἳ χρυσῷ τε καὶ ἀργύρῳ ἐσφήκωντο. (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 6:6)

Synonyms

  1. locks

  2. the tendrils

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

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