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ἄπνοια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπνοια ἀπνοίας

Structure: ἀπνοι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. want of wind, calm

Declension

First 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

  • Ἔτοσ νότιον ἔπομβρον‧ ἄπνοια διὰ τέλεοσ‧ αὐχμῶν δὲ γενομένων τοὺσ ὑπόπροσθεν χρόνουσ ἐν νοτίοισι περὶ ἀρκτοῦρον ὕδατα πολλά. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 151)
  • Ἢν δὲ πνεύμων, ἐπὶ μὲν σμικρῇ τῇ αἰτίῃ, δύσπνοια · ζώει κακῶσ, θάνατοσ μήκιστοσ, ἢν μή τισ ἀκέηται · ἐπὶ δὲ μεγάλῳ πάθεϊ, ὁκοῖον ἡ φλεγμον ὴ, πνιγμὸσ , ἀφωνίη, ἄπνοια, ὄλεθροσ αὐτίκα· ἥδε ἐστὶν ἥν καλέομεν περιπνευμονίην, φλεγμονὴ τοῦ πνεύμονοσ, ξὺν ὀξέϊ πυρετῷ, εὖτε ξύνεστιν αὐτέοισι βάροσ τοῦ θώρηκοσ, ἀπονίη, ἢν μοῦνοσ φλεγμήνῃ ὁ πνεύμων, ἄπονοσ γὰρ ἡ φύσισ αὐτέου· μανὸσ μὲν γὰρ τὴν οὐσίην, εἰρίοισιν ἴκελοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 7)

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