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πύκνωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πύκνωμα πύκνωματος

Structure: πυκνωματ (Stem)

Etym.: from pukno/w

Sense

  1. close order or array
  2. combined notes, recurrent notes

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ φυγὴ μὲν οὐκ ἦν, ἀναχώρησισ δὲ πρὸσ ὄροσ τὸ καλούμενον Ὀλόκρον, ὥστε καὶ τὸν Αἰμίλιον ἰδόντα φησὶν ὁ Ποσειδώνιοσ καταρρήξασθαι τὸν χιτῶνα, τούτων μὲν ἐνδιδόντων, τῶν δ’ ἄλλων Ῥωμαίων διατρεπομένων τὴν φάλαγγα προσβολὴν οὐκ ἔχουσαν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ χαρακώματι τῷ πυκνώματι τῶν σαρισῶν ὑπαντιάζουσαν πάντοθεν ἀπρόσμαχον. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 20 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. close order or array

Related

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

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