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παροξυσμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παροξυσμός παροξυσμοῦ

Structure: παροξυσμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from parocu/_nw

Sense

  1. irritation, exasperation, a provoking

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, ὅσοισ μὲν πρόσεστιν ὀργὴ τῶν πραττομένων ἢ λῆμμά τι κέρδουσ ἢ παροξυσμὸσ ἢ φιλονικία, ταῦτα μὲν ἄλλοσ ἂν ἄλλωσ πράξειε πρὸσ τὸν αὑτοῦ τρόπον· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 18:2)
  • ἔκτεινε γάρ κοτε παροξυσμὸσ εἷσ· ἢν δὲ μελέτῃσι φέρῃ ὥνθρωποσ, ζῇ μὲν αἴσχεα καὶ ὀνείδεα καὶ ἄλγεα φέρων, Ῥηϊδίωσ δὲ οὐκ ἄπεισι ἡ νοῦσοσ, ἀλλὰ ἐν ἡλικίῃσί τε τῇσι κρείττοσι ἐνοικέει καὶ ὡρ́ῃ τῇ ὡραίῃ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 23)
  • ἐγένετο δὲ παροξυσμὸσ ὥστε ἀποχωρισθῆναι αὐτοὺσ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, τόν τε Βαρνάβαν παραλαβόντα τὸν Μάρκον ἐκπλεῦσαι εἰσ Κύπρον. (, chapter 14 73:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ εἰπεῖν κεφάλαιον, τὸ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ μῖσοσ αὐτῶν καὶ ὁ παροξυσμὸσ ἐπεσκότησε τῇ πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν δυσμενείᾳ, καὶ ὥσπερ νέφουσ ὑπελθόντοσ οὐδὲν τῶν πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ καθορῶσιν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 12:1)

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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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