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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

  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ πίθοσ ἔτι μενέτω σοὶ καὶ ὁ κάπηλοσ, ἐνέστω δὲ μὴ οἶνοσ, ἀλλὰ πανσπερμία τισ, πυρὸσ ὑπεράνω καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον κύαμοι, εἶτα κριθαὶ καὶ ὐπὸ ταύταισ φακοί, εἶτα ἐρέβινθοι καὶ ἄλλα ποικίλα. (Lucian, 124:2)
  • καίτοι, καθάπερ ὁ Ζήνων ἔλεγε τὸ σπέρμα σύμμιγμα καὶ κέρασμα τῶν τῆσ ψυχῆσ δυνάμεων ὑπάρχειν ἀπεσπασμένον, οὕτωσ ἐοίκε τῶν παθῶν πανσπερμία τισ ὁ θυμὸσ εἶναι· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 151)
  • καίτοι, καθάπερ ὁ Ζήνων ἔλεγε τὸ σπέρμα ι σύμμιγμα καὶ κέρασμα τῶν τῆσ ψυχῆσ δυνάμεων ὑπάρχειν ἀπεσπασμένον, οὕτωσ ἐοίκε τῶν παθῶν πανσπερμία τισ ὁ θυμὸσ εἶναι. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 151)
  • ἐστὶ δὲ τὸ πυάνιον, ὥσ φησι Σωσίβιοσ, πανσπερμία ἐν γλυκεῖ ἡψημένη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 586)

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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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