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νυγμή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυγμή

Structure: νυγμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: nu/ssw

Sense

  1. a pricking, puncture

Declension

First 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

  • ταῦτα οὐχ Ὅμηρον αἱ γυναῖκεσ ἀλλ’ Ὁμηρίδα γράψαι λέγουσι τεκοῦσαν ἢ τίκτουσαν ἔτι καὶ τὸ νύγμα τῆσ ἀλγηδόνοσ ὁμοῦ πικρὸν καὶ ὀξὺ γινόμενον ἐν τοῖσ σπλάγχνοισ ἔχουσαν. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 4 1:1)
  • Διὰ τόδε φυσώδεεσ ἐσ τὴν γαστέρα, ἐρυγαὶ ξυνεχέεσ, κακώδεεσ, ἢν δὲ καὶ κάτω περήσωσι, τρύζει μὲν τὰ ἔντερα, φῦσαι δὲ διεξιᾶσι δασεῖαι, ὑγραὶ, ἀργιλώδεεσ · φαντασίαι δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτέοισι ὡσ διεκθέοντοσ ὑγροῦ· πόνοσ τῆσ κοιλίησ βαρὺσ, ὁκοῖον νύγμα, ἄλλοτε καὶ ἄλλοτε· ἰσχνὸσ δὲ καὶ ἄτροφοσ ὥνθρωποσ, ὠχρὸσ, ἀδρανήσ · οὐδέν τι πρῆξαι τῶν συνήθων εὔτονοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 166)

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

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