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ἔμπυος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμπυος ἔμπυον

Structure: ἐμπυ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, pu/on

Sense

  1. suppurating

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Τῶν δὲ ἐμπύων τῶν ἐκ τῶν περιπλευμονικῶν οἱ γεραίτεροι μᾶλλον ἀπόλλυνται‧ ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἐμπυημάτων οἱ νεώτεροι μᾶλλον ἀποθνήσκουσι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., PROGNWSTIKON, 18.6)
  • Ὁκόσοι δὲ τῶν ἐμπύων καίονται ἢ τέμνονται, οἷσιν ἂν καθαρὸν μὲν το πῦον ᾖ καὶ λευκὸν καὶ μὴ δυσῶδεσ, σώζονται‧ οἷσι δὲ ὕφαιμόν τε καὶ βορβορῶδεσ, ἀπόλλυνται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., PROGNWSTIKON, 18.7)

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

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