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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

  • οἱ δὲ Γαλάται οὗτοι νέμονται τῆσ Εὐρώπησ τὰ ἔσχατα ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ πολλῇ καὶ ἐσ τὰ πέρατα οὐ πλωίμῳ, παρέχεται δὲ ἄμπωτιν καὶ ῥαχίαν καὶ θηρία οὐδὲν ἐοικότα τοῖσ ἐν θαλάσσῃ τῇ λοιπῇ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 2:1)

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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