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βλάστημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: βλάστημα βλάστηματος

Structure: βλαστηματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. offspring, an offshoot
  2. an eruption

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

  • οἶδε δ’ αὐτὸσ ὧν ἥκω πέρι ἅ τε ξυνεθέμην πρέσβυσ ὢν γεραιτέρῳ, θύρσουσ ἀνάπτειν καὶ νεβρῶν δορὰσ ἔχειν στεφανοῦν τε κρᾶτα κισσίνοισ βλαστήμασιν. (Euripides, episode4)
  • Διὸσ κεραυνόν τ’ ἠρόμην τέθριππά τε, ἐν οἷσ βεβηκὼσ τοῖσι γῆσ βλαστήμασιν Γίγασι πλευροῖσ πτήν’ ἐναρμόσασ βέλη τὸν καλλίνικον μετὰ θεῶν ἐκώμασεν· (Euripides, Heracles, episode 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. offspring

Related

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

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