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ἐκπνοή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκπνοή

Structure: ἐκπνο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a breathing out, expiring

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῦ πολέμου μᾶλλον ἐφοβοῦντο τὴν ἐπὶ τὸ Πηλούσιον ὁδόν, ἅτε δὴ διὰ ψάμμου βαθείασ καὶ ἀνύδρου παρὰ τὸ Ἔκρηγμα καὶ τὰ τῆσ Σερβωνίδοσ ἕλη γινομένησ αὐτοῖσ τῆσ πορείασ, ἃσ Τυφῶνοσ μὲν ἐκπνοὰσ Αἰγύπτιοι καλοῦσι, τῆσ δ’ ἐρυθρᾶσ θαλάσσησ ὑπονόστησισ εἶναι δοκεῖ καὶ διήθησισ, ᾗ βραχυτάτῳ διορίζεται πρὸσ τὴν ἐντὸσ θάλασσαν ἰσθμῷ, πεμφθεὶσ μετὰ τῶν ἱππέων ὁ Ἀντώνιοσ οὐ μόνον τὰ στενὰ κατέσχεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ Πηλούσιον ἑλών, πόλιν μεγάλην, καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ φρουρῶν κρατήσασ, ἅμα καὶ τὴν ὁδὸν ἀσφαλῆ τῷ στρατεύματι καὶ τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆσ νίκησ ἐποίησε τῷ στρατηγῷ βέβαιον. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 3 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a breathing out

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

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