πλεκτάνη
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From πλέκω (plékō, “to plait, twine”) + -ᾰ́νη (-ắnē, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /plek.tá.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /plekˈta.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /plekˈta.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /plekˈta.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /plekˈta.ni/
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Noun
[edit]πλεκτᾰ́νη • (plektắnē) f (genitive πλεκτᾰ́νης); first declension
- anything twined or wreathed, coil, wreath
- (in the plural) arms of the octopus, tentacles
- (in the plural) antennae of the shrimp
- (in the plural) meshes of a spiderweb
- (pathology) mastoid growth in the uterus
- (anatomy) Fallopian tubes
- (anatomy) plexus of veins
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πλεκτᾰ́νη hē plektắnē |
τὼ πλεκτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ plektắnā |
αἱ πλεκτᾰ́ναι hai plektắnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πλεκτᾰ́νης tês plektắnēs |
τοῖν πλεκτᾰ́ναιν toîn plektắnain |
τῶν πλεκτᾰνῶν tôn plektănôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πλεκτᾰ́νῃ têi plektắnēi |
τοῖν πλεκτᾰ́ναιν toîn plektắnain |
ταῖς πλεκτᾰ́ναις taîs plektắnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πλεκτᾰ́νην tḕn plektắnēn |
τὼ πλεκτᾰ́νᾱ tṑ plektắnā |
τᾱ̀ς πλεκτᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s plektắnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πλεκτᾰ́νη plektắnē |
πλεκτᾰ́νᾱ plektắnā |
πλεκτᾰ́ναι plektắnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- πλεκτᾰ́νῐον (plektắnĭon)
- πλεκτᾰνόομαι (plektănóomai)
- πλεκτᾰνόστολος (plektănóstolos)
- πλεκτᾰνώδης (plektănṓdēs)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: πλεκτάνη (plektáni)
Further reading
[edit]- “πλεκτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλεκτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλεκτάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -άνη
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- grc:Pathology
- grc:Anatomy
- grc:Animal body parts