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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

  • εἰ δ’, ὥσπερ Ἀθηνόδωρόσ φησιν, εἰσπνοῇ τε καὶ ἐκπνοῇ τὸ συμβαῖνον περὶ τὰσ πλημμυρίδασ καὶ περὶ τὰσ ἀμπώτεισ ἐοίκεν, εἶναι ἄν τινα τῶν ῥεόντων ὑδάτων, ἃ κατ’ ἄλλουσ μὲν πόρουσ ἔχει τὴν ἔκρυσιν κατὰ φύσιν εἰσ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν, ὧν δὴ τὰ στόματα πηγὰσ καὶ κρήνασ καλοῦμεν, κατ’ ἄλλουσ δὲ πόρουσ συνέλκεται πρὸσ τὸ τῆσ θαλάττησ βάθοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 14:15)
  • καὶ συνεξαίροντα μὲν ἐκείνην ὥστε πλημμυρεῖν, ὅταν οἱο͂ν ἡ ἐκπνοὴ γίνηται, τὸ οἰκεῖον ἀπολείπει ῥεῖθρον, πάλιν δ’ ἀναχωρεῖ πρὸσ τὸ οἰκεῖον ῥεῖθρον, ὅταν κἀκείνη λάβῃ τὴν ἀναχώρησιν. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 14:16)

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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