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ἄσφυκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσφυκτος

Structure: ἀσφυκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sfu/zw

Sense

  1. without pulse, lifeless

Examples

  • ἤπιοσ γὰρ ἡ τοῦ ὕδατοσ ὑγρότησ καὶ ἄσφυκτοσ, ἡ δὲ τοῦ οἴνου φορὰν ἔχει πολλὴν καὶ δύναμιν οὐκ εὐμενῆ τοῖσ προσφάτοισ πάθεσιν οὐδὲ φιλάνθρωπον. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 19 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. without pulse

Related

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

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