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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

  • πουλύπου ὀργὴν ἴσχε πολυπλόκου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 7 3:3)
  • πουλύπου ὀργὴν ἴσχε πολυπλόκου, ὃσ ποτὶ πέτρῃ τῇ προσομιλήσῃ τοῖοσ ἰδεῖν ἐφάνη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 102 2:1)
  • πουλύπου ὀργὴν ἴσχε πολυπλόκου, ὃσ ποτὶ πέτρῃ τῇ προσομιλήσῃ τοῖοσ ἰδεῖν ἐφάνη· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389120)

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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