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περισπασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περισπασμός περισπασμοῦ

Structure: περισπασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from perispa/w

Sense

  1. wheeling around, spinning
  2. (chiefly in the plural) distraction, distracting circumstances
  3. (grammar) circumflex accent

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

  • οὗτοσ δὲ τέτακται μὲν ὑπὸ τὸν αὐτοκράτορα, γίνεται δ’ οἱονεὶ διάδοχοσ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ ἐν τοῖσ ἐκείνου περισπασμοῖσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 87 9:3)
  • λοιπὸν ὅταν μὲν οὗτοι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἢ πρὸσ ἑτέρουσ πολεμοῦντεσ ἐν περισπασμοῖσ ἦσαν, ἐγίνετο τὸ δέον αὐτοῖσ· (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 32 5:1)
  • πλεῖστον μὲν γὰρ ἱππέων τάττεται βάθοσ ἐπ’ ὀκτὼ πρὸσ ἀληθινὴν χρείαν, καὶ μεταξὺ τῶν ἰλῶν ἑκάστησ ἴσον ὑπάρχειν δεῖ διάστημα τοῖσ μετώποισ πρὸσ τὸ ταῖσ ἐπιστροφαῖσ δύνασθαι καὶ τοῖσ περισπασμοῖσ εὐχρηστεῖν. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 18 3:1)

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