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παλιρρύμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλιρρύμη

Structure: παλιρρυμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a rush backwards, back-flow

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

  • ὅταν γὰρ ἡ φωνὴ πολλὴ καὶ μεγάλη φέρηται, διασπώμενοσ ὑπ’ αὐτῆσ οὐκ ἀντερείδει τοῖσ πετομένοισ, ἀλλ’ ὀλίσθημα ποιεῖ καθάπερ κενεμβατοῦσιν, εἰ μὴ νὴ Δία πληγῇ τινι μᾶλλον ὡσ ὑπὸ βέλουσ διελαυνόμενα πίπτει καὶ ἀποθνῄσκει, δύναται δὲ καὶ περιδίνησισ εἶναι τοῦ ἀέροσ, οἱο͂ν ἑλιγμὸν ἐν πελάγει καὶ παλιρρύμην τοῦ σάλου διὰ μέγεθοσ λαμβάνοντοσ. (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 10 6:4)
  • σὲ δ’ ἀγωνιῶ, Πόπλιε, λίαν" ἔφη "καὶ διὰ τὸ νέον εἶναι κομιδῇ καὶ διὰ τὸ πάντα σοι κατὰ λόγον κεχωρηκέναι καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν Ἰβηρίαν καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν Λιβύην καὶ μηδέπω μέχρι γε τοῦ νῦν εἰσ τὴν τῆσ τύχησ ἐμπεπτωκέναι παλιρρύμην, μήποτ’ οὐ πεισθῇσ διὰ ταῦτα τοῖσ ἐμοῖσ λόγοισ, καίπερ οὖσι πιστοῖσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 15, chapter 7 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a rush backwards

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

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