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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

  • Ἢν δὲ πρὸσ τῷ ὀστέῳ δοκέῃ εἶναι τὸ φλάσμα, καὶ ἔτι νεαρὸν ἐῄ, καὶ μήπω σφακελίσῃ τὸ ὀστέον, ἢν μὲν κάρτα ὀλίγον ἐῄ, οὕτω καίειν χρὴ ὥσπερ εἴρηται‧ ἢν μέντοι παραμήκησ ἐῄ ὁ μετεωρισμὸσ ὁ κατὰ τὸ ὀστέον, πλείονασ ἐσχάρασ ἐμβάλλειν χρή‧ περὶ δὲ σφακελισμοῦ πλευρῆσ ἅμα τῇ τῶν ἐμμότων ἰητρείῃ εἰρήσεται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 50.10)

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

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