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συμπληγάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: συμπληγάς συμπληγάδος

Structure: συμπληγαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sumplh/ssw

Sense

  1. striking or dashing together, justling

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

  • ἀλλ’ οὔτε πνεῦμα Διόθεν ἦλθε πώποτε, οὐ πορθμίσ, ἥτισ διὰ πέτρασ Συμπληγάδασ Ἑλένην ἀπήγαγ’ ἐνθάδ’, ἥ μ’ ἀπώλεσεν, Μενέλεών θ’, ἵν’ αὐτοὺσ ἀντετιμωρησάμην, τὴν ἐνθάδ’ Αὖλιν ἀντιθεῖσα τῆσ ἐκεῖ, οὗ μ’ ὥστε μόσχον Δαναί̈δαι χειρούμενοι ἔσφαζον, ἱερεὺσ δ’ ἦν ὁ γεννήσασ πατήρ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 7:4)
  • προσέδοσαν δέ τι καὶ αἱ Κυάνεαι, ἅσπερ Συμπληγάδασ καλοῦσι πέτρασ τινέσ, τραχὺν ποιοῦσαι τὸν διέκπλουν τὸν διὰ τοῦ Βυζαντιακοῦ στόματοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 20:3)
  • ὥστε παρὰ μὲν τὴν Αἰᾶν ἡ Αἰαίη, παρὰ δὲ τὰσ Συμπληγάδασ αἱ Πλαγκταὶ καὶ ὁ δι’ αὐτῶν πλοῦσ τοῦ Ιἄσονοσ πιθανὸσ ἐφάνη, παρὰ δὲ τὴν Σκύλλαν καὶ τὴν Χάρυβδιν ὁ διὰ τῶν σκοπέλων πλοῦσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 20:4)
  • καὶ τὰσ Πλαγκτὰσ [δὲ] καὶ τὰσ Συμπληγάδασ ἐνθάδε μεταφέρουσί τινεσ, ταύτασ εἶναι νομίζοντεσ στήλασ, ἃσ Πίνδαροσ καλεῖ πύλασ Γαδειρίδασ, εἰσ ταύτασ ὑστάτασ ἀφῖχθαι φάσκων τὸν Ἡρακλέα. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 10:10)

Synonyms

  1. striking or dashing together

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

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