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ἔμμοτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμμοτος ἔμμοτον

Structure: ἐμμοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, moto/s

Sense

  1. needing to be stopped with lint, to heal

Examples

  • δώμασιν ἔμμοτον τῶνδ’ ἄκοσ, οὐδ’ ἀπ’ ἄλλων ἔκτοθεν, ἀλλ’ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν, δι’ ὠμὰν ἔριν αἱματηράν. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 111)
  • Ἢν ὑστέρη ἐν τῷ ἰσχίῳ ἐγκειμένη διαπυήσῃ, ἀνάγκη ἔμμοτον γενέσθαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 72.47)

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

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