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οἴστρημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἴστρημα οἴστρηματος

Structure: οἰστρηματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. the smart of a gadfly's sting, frenzy

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

  • οἱο͂ν εἰσέδυ μ’ ἅμα κέντρων τε τῶνδ’ οἴστρημα καὶ μνήμη κακῶν. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 13)
  • μῆτερ ἐμή Ῥείη, Φρυγίων θρέπτειρα λεόντων, Δίνδυμον ἧσ μύσταισ οὐκ ἀπάτητον ὄροσ, σοὶ τάδε θῆλυσ Ἄλεξισ ἑῆσ οἰστρήματα λύσσησ ἄνθετο, χαλκοτύπου παυσάμενοσ μανίησ, κύμβαλά τ’ ὀξύφθογγα, βαρυφθόγγων τ’ ἀλαλητὸν αὐλῶν, οὓσ μόσχου λοξὸν ἔκαμψε κέρασ, τυμπανά τ’ ἠχήεντα, καὶ αἵματι φοινιχθέντα φάσγανα, καὶ ξανθάσ, τὰσ πρὶν ἔσεισε, κόμασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 511)

Synonyms

  1. the smart of a gadfly's sting

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

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