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κνυζηθμός

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κνυζηθμός κνυζηθμοῦ

Structure: κνυζηθμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: knuza/omai

Sense

  1. a whining, whimpering

Declension

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

  • "μυθεύουσιν ἐν Κρήτῃ γενέσθαι τὴν Διὸσ τέκνωσιν ἐπὶ τῆσ Δίκτησ, ἐν ᾗ καὶ ἀπόρρητοσ γίνεται θυσία, λέγεται γὰρ ὡσ ἄρα Διὶ θηλὴν ὑπέσχεν ὗσ καὶ τῷ σφετέρῳ γρυσμῷ περιοιχνεῦσα τὸν κνυζηθμὸν τοῦ βρέφεοσ ἀνεπάιστον τοῖσ παριοῦσιν ἐτίθει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 182)
  • ἀμφὶ δὲ θῆρεσ κνυζηθμῷ σαίνουσιν ὑποτρομέοντεσ ἰοῦσαν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 14:40)
  • οἰκε, κνυζηθμοῖσ καὶ ὑλαγμοῖσ εἰκάζετε. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 82:4)
  • οὐδ’ ἄρα Τηλέμαχοσ ἴδεν ἀντίον οὐδ’ ἐνόησεν, οὐ γὰρ πω πάντεσσι θεοὶ φαίνονται ἐναργεῖσ, ἀλλ’ Ὀδυσεύσ τε κύνεσ τε ἴδον, καί ῥ’ οὐχ ὑλάοντο κνυζηθμῷ δ’ ἑτέρωσε διὰ σταθμοῖο φόβηθεν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 16 17:6)

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

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