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πλώιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλώιμος πλώιμη πλώιμον

Structure: πλωιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: plw/w

Sense

  1. fit for sailing
  2. fit for sea, seaworthy
  3. navigation, favourable for navigation

Examples

  • Ἀθηναίων δὲ στρατηγὸσ μὲν Κάλλιπποσ ἦν ὁ Μοιροκλέουσ, καθὰ ἐδήλωσα καὶ ἐν τοῖσ προτέροισ τοῦ λόγου, δύναμισ δὲ τριήρεισ τε <αἱ> πλώιμοι πᾶσαι, πεντακόσιοι δὲ ἐσ τὸ ἱππικόν, χίλιοι δὲ ἐτάσσοντο ἐν τοῖσ πεζοῖσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. fit for sailing

  2. navigation

Related

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

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