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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’ ὅτι καθ’ ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸ ζῷον ἓν ὄργανον ἐναντίαισ φοραῖσ ὑλῶν ὑπηρετεῖ, τοῦτό σοι βούλεται δηλοῦν τὸ ἅμα καὶ τοῦτό σε ταράττει, τήν τ’ εἰσπνοὴν ἰδὲ καὶ τὴν ἐκπνοήν. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 1359)
  • Ἀναξίμανδροσ τὸν μὲν ἣλιον ἴσον τῇ γῇ εἶναι, τὸν δὲ κύκλον, ἀφ’ οὗ τὴν ἐκπνοὴν ἔχει καὶ ὑφ’ οὗ φέρεται, ἑπτακαιεικοσαπλασίονα τῆσ γῆσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 2, 1)
  • ὅμοιον γὰρ εἶναι ἁρματείῳ τροχῷ κοίλην ἔχοντι τὴν ἁψῖδα καὶ πλήρη πυρόσ, ἔχοντι μίαν ἐκπνοήν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 2, 1:1)
  • τὴν δὲ νῦν κατέχουσαν φερομένου τοῦ αἵματοσ ὡσ πρὸσ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν καὶ τὸ ἀερῶδεσ διὰ τῶν ῥινῶν ταῖσ ἑαυτοῦ ἐπιρροίαισ ἀναθλίβοντοσ κατὰ τὴν ἐκχώρησιν αὐτοῦ γίνεσθαι τὴν ἐκπνοήν· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 3:2)
  • τούτῳ δὲ δὴ τῷ γένει τὸν τὰσ ἐπωνυμίασ θέμενον ἀναπνοὴν καὶ ἐκπνοὴν λέγομεν θέσθαι τοὔνομα. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 400:1)

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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