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πανσπερμία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πανσπερμία

Structure: πανσπερμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from pa/nspermos

Sense

  1. a mixture of all seeds

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

  • τῷ γὰρ ὄντι συγκεράσασ καὶ συμφορήσασ πανσπερμίαν τινὰ μύθων ὁ Πίνδαροσ εἰσ τὸ μέλοσ ἐξέχεεν. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 4 2:3)
  • τῷ γὰρ, ὄντι συγκεράσασ καὶ συμφορήσασ πανσπερμίαν τινὰ μύθων ὁ Πίνδαροσ εἰσ τὸ μέλοσ ἐξέχεεν. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 4 7:2)
  • ἀποκρίνων, μειγνὺσ δὲ ἀλλήλοισ σύμμετρα, πανσπερμίαν παντὶ θνητῷ γένει μηχανώμενοσ, τὸν μυελὸν ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀπηργάσατο, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα δὴ φυτεύων ἐν αὐτῷ κατέδει τὰ τῶν ψυχῶν γένη, σχημάτων τε ὅσα ἔμελλεν αὖ σχήσειν οἱᾶ́ τε καθ’ ἕκαστα εἴδη, τὸν μυελὸν αὐτὸν τοσαῦτα καὶ τοιαῦτα διῃρεῖτο σχήματα εὐθὺσ ἐν τῇ διανομῇ τῇ κατ’ ἀρχάσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 366:1)

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

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