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ἆσθμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἆσθμα

Structure: ἀσθματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)/w, to blow

Sense

  1. a breath, breathing, a blast

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

  • ἢ νεοκτίστουσ θυμοῦ πλήρεισ θῆρασ ἀγνώστουσ ἤτοι πυρπνόον φυσῶντασ ἆσθμα ἢ βρόμουσ λικμωμένουσ καπνοῦ ἢ δεινοὺσ ἀπ̓ ὀμμάτων σπινθῆρασ ἀστράπτοντασ, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 11:18)
  • οὔ σοι Ἄρησ ἐπάρηξε, καὶ εἰ δορὶ μαίνεται Ἄρησ, οὐ φλόγεσ Ἡφαίστοιο, καὶ εἰ φλογὸσ ἆσθμα λοχεύει. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 198)
  • εἶτ’ ἐπειδὴ κινουμένων τὸ ἆσθμα τὴν ᾠδὴν ἐπετάραττεν, ἄμεινον ἔδοξεν ἄλλουσ αὐτοῖσ ὑπᾴδειν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 30:2)
  • Ἐμοὶ μὲν καὶ πάνυ καλόσ, ὦ Ἀφροδίτη, δοκεῖ, καὶ μάλιστα ὅταν ὑποβαλόμενοσ ἐπὶ τῆσ πέτρασ τὴν χλαμύδα καθεύδῃ τῇ λαιᾷ μὲν ἔχων τὰ ἀκόντια ἤδη ἐκ τῆσ χειρὸσ ὑπορρέοντα, ἡ δεξιὰ δὲ περὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐσ τὸ ἄνω ἐπικεκλασμένη ἐπιπρέπῃ τῷ προσώπῳ περικειμένη, ὁ δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ ὕπνου λελυμένοσ ἀναπνέῃ τὸ ἀμβρόσιον ἐκεῖνο ἆσθμα. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:3)
  • οἱ πολλοὶ δὲ τὸ σχῆμα καὶ φωνὴν καὶ βάδισμα καὶ περίπατον καὶ μέλοσ καὶ κρηπῖδα καὶ τὸ ἄττα σου ἐκεῖνο τεθήπασι, καὶ τὸν ἱδρῶτα ὁρῶντεσ καὶ τὸ ἆσθμα οὐκ ἔχουσιν ὅπωσ ἀπιστήσουσι μὴ οὐχὶ πάνδεινόν τινα ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ ἀγωνιστὴν εἶναί σε. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:43)
  • καὶ τοῦτο σιτίον τε ἱκανὸν ἔσται αὐτῇ, καὶ ἀναψύξει τὸ ἄσθμα, καὶ ἀναπαύσει τὸ δῖψοσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 13 3:2)
  • οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ὅ τι μᾶλλον ἀναψύχει τε αὐταῖσ τὸ καῦμα καὶ τὸ ἄσθμα ἀμπαύει. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 14 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a breath

Related

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

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