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νεῦμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεῦμα νεῦματος

Structure: νευματ (Stem)

Etym.: neu/w

Sense

  1. a nod or sign, a mere nod, without cause

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

  • "ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ Ῥωμαῖοσ ἐκεῖνοσ, ὦ ἑταῖρε, Γάλβασ εἱστία Μαικήναν ὡσ ἐοίκεν, εἶθ’ ὁρῶν διαπληκτιζόμενον ἀπὸ νευμάτων πρὸσ τὸ γύναιον, ἀπέκλινεν ἡσυχῆ τὴν κεφαλὴν ὡσ δὴ καθεύδων ἐν τούτῳ δὴ τῶν οἰκετῶν τινοσ προσρυέντοσ ἔξωθεν τῇ τραπέζῃ καὶ τὸν οἶνον ὑφαιρουμένου, διαβλέψασ κακόδαιμον εἶπεν οὐκ οἶσθ’ ὅτι μόνῳ Μαικήνᾳ καθεύδω; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 2:30)

Related

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

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