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πλώσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλώσιμος πλώσιμον

Structure: πλωσιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: plw/w

Sense

  1. navigable

Examples

  • κείνοισ δ’ ἴσωσ κεἰ δείν’ ἐπερρώσθη λέγειν τῆσ σῆσ ἀγωγῆσ, οἶδ’ ἐγώ, φανήσεται μακρὸν τὸ δεῦρο πέλαγοσ οὐδὲ πλώσιμον. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 3:22)

Synonyms

  1. navigable

Similar forms

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

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