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πολύπλοκος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύπλοκος πολύπλοκον

Structure: πολυπλοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ple/kw

Sense

  1. much-tangled, thick-wreathed, with tangled, twisting arms
  2. much-twisting, complex, intricate

Examples

  • ἐν οἷσ δὲ σκολιὰ καὶ πολύπλοκοσ καὶ δυσεξέλικτοσ ἡ τῶν ἐνθυμημάτων κατασκευὴ γίνεται, τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἔχει παρ’ αὐτῷ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 161)
  • θεωρεῖτε δὲ πῶσ πολύπλοκόσ ἐστιν ἡ τῆσ φιλοτεκνίασ στοργὴ ἕλκουσα πάντα πρὸσ τὴν τῶν σπλάγχνων συμπάθειαν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 14:13)

Synonyms

  1. much-twisting

Related

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

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