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κλύσμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλύσμα κλύσματος

Structure: κλυσματ (Stem)

Etym.: klu/zw

Sense

  1. a liquid used for washing out, a clyster, drench
  2. a place washed by the waves, the sea-beach

Declension

Third 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

  • ὅταν δὲ συντελέσῃ, φέρουσα παρέθηκε παρὰ τὸ κλύσμα τοῦ κύματοσ, ὅπου προσπίπτουσα μαλακῶσ ἡ θάλασσα τὸ μὲν οὐ καλῶσ ἀραρὸσ ἐδίδαξεν ἀκέσασθαι καὶ καταπυκνῶσαι, χαλώμενον ὁρῶσαν ὑπὸ τῆσ πληγῆσ τὰ δ’ ἡρμοσμένα κατασφίγγει καὶ πήγνυσιν, ὥστε καὶ λίθῳ καὶ σιδήρῳ δυσδιάλυτον εἶναι καὶ δύστρωτον. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 35 13:1)
  • Ἢν δὲ μὴ δοκέῃ τάμνειν φλέβα, ψύξιοσ πολλῆσ καὶ νάρκησ καὶ ἀναισθήσιοσ ἀμφισχούσησ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὑποκλύζειν ἐσ κένωσιν τοῦ πλήθεοσ τῶν ἐν τοῖσι ἐντέροισι ̔τὰ πολλὰ γὰρ ὑπ’ ἀδηφαγίησ καὶ οἰνοφλυγίησ παραπλῆγεσ γίγνονταἰ, καὶ εἰσ τὴν ἀντίσπασιν τῶν τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀμφεχόν των χυμῶν· ἔστω δὲ τὸ κλύσμα δριμὺ, καὶ φλεγμάτων καὶ χολῆσ ἀγωγὸν, ὡσ μὴ νίτρον ἔχειν μοῦνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ εὐφόρβιον, ὅσον ὁλκῆσ τριώβολον, ἐσ τόδε ξύνηθεσ πλῆθοσ τοῦ κλύσματοσ, καὶ κολοκυνθίδοσ τὸ ἐντόσ, ἢ κενταυρίου τῆσ κόμησ ἀφεψήματοσ εἰσ ἔλαιον, ἧ ὕδωρ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 160)
  • ἄριστον δὲ κλύσμα καὶ τὸ τοιόνδε · τοῦ μέλιτοσ τῷ ξυνήθει πήγανον ξὺν τῷ λίπαϊ ἑψηθὲν, καὶ τερμίνθου τοῦ δένδρεοσ τῆσ Ῥητίνησ, καὶ ἁλῶν ἀντὶ νίτρου, καὶ ὑσσώπου ἐψήματοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 161)
  • ἐπεὰν τοὺσ κλυστῆρασ πλήσωνται τοῦ ἀπὸ κέδρου ἀλείφατοσ γινομένου, ἐν ὦν ἔπλησαν τοῦ νεκροῦ τὴν κοιλίην, οὔτε ἀναταμόντεσ αὐτὸν οὔτε ἐξελόντεσ τὴν νηδύν, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἕδρην ἐσηθήσαντεσ καὶ ἐπιλαβόντεσ τὸ κλύσμα τῆσ ὀπίσω ὁδοῦ ταριχεύουσι τὰσ προκειμένασ ἡμέρασ, τῇ δὲ τελευταίῃ ἐξιεῖσι ἐκ τῆσ κοιλίησ τὴν κεδρίην τὴν ἐσῆκαν πρότερον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 87 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a place washed by the waves

Related

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

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