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ἀνάπνευσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνάπνευσις

Structure: ἀναπνευσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)napne/w

Sense

  1. recovery of breath, respite from

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

  • ἐπ’ ἤματι δ’ ἦμαρ ὀρώρει κύντερον, οὐδέ τισ ἠε͂ν ἀνάπνευσισ μογέοντι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 8:4)
  • ἢν δέ πωσ ὁ θώρηξ εὔσαρκοσ ἐῄ, ὅκωσ μὴ ἀμφὶ τοῖσι ὀστέοισι τὸ δέρμα ἡ σικύη ἀμφιθλάσῃ ἐρείδουσα, καὶ τῷδε προσβάλλειν· ἢν γὰρ πάντη τοῦ σώματοσ τά τε ὑγρὰ ἐφέλκηται καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα ἔξω τιταίνηται , οἷσί περ ὁ πνεύμων πνίγεται, ἀνάπνευσισ ἂν γίγνοιτο τοῦ κακοῦ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 9)
  • καθαρὸσ ἠὴρ, ψυχρότεροσ , ἐσ ἀνάπνευσιν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 139)
  • ἀλλὰ, ἢν μὲν φλεγμασίην αἰτίην εὑρ́ηται, τάμνειν φλέβα τὴν ἐπ’ ἀγκῶνι μεγάλῃ τῇ σχάσι, ὅκωσ ἀθρόωσ διεκρέῃ τὸ αἷμα, τῆσ φλεγμασίησ ἡ τροφὴ, κἢν μέσφι λειποθυμίησ· τόδε γὰρ ἢ ἀπονίησ ἀρχὴ γιγνεται, ἢ νάρκησ ἐσ ἀναισθησίην· ἀνάπνευσισ δὲ ἐν εἰλεῷ, κἢν ὑπ’ ἀγνοίησ ἐσ βαιὸν χρόνον ἐῄ τοῦ πόνου ἀμβολή· ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ θνήσκειν τοῖσ μὲν ὧδε πονέουσι εὐδαιμονίη · τῳ ἀρχιητρῷ δὲ οὐ θέμισ πρήσσειν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 211)
  • τὸ δὲ τέταρτον γένοσ ἔνυδρον γέγονεν ἐκ τῶν μάλιστα ἀνοητοτάτων καὶ ἀμαθεστάτων, οὓσ οὐδ’ ἀναπνοῆσ καθαρᾶσ ἔτι ἠξίωσαν οἱ μεταπλάττοντεσ, ὡσ τὴν ψυχὴν ὑπὸ πλημμελείασ πάσησ ἀκαθάρτωσ ἐχόντων, ἀλλ’ ἀντὶ λεπτῆσ καὶ καθαρᾶσ ἀναπνοῆσ ἀέροσ εἰσ ὕδατοσ θολερὰν καὶ βαθεῖαν ἐώσαν ἀνάπνευσιν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 490:3)
  • ὀλίγη δέ τ’ ἀνάπνευσισ πολέμοιο. (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 66:15)
  • ὀλίγη δέ τ’ ἀνάπνευσισ πολέμοιο. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 3:14)

Synonyms

  1. recovery of breath

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

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