Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πνιγμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πνιγμός πνιγμοῦ

Structure: πνιγμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pni/gw

Sense

  1. a choking or being choked

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

  • Ἢν δὲ ὑγρὴ ἡ κοιλίη ᾖ, καὶ χολὴ ὑποχωρέῃ, καὶ στρόφοι, καὶ ἔμετοι, καὶ πνιγμοὶ, καὶ δηγμοὶ, τούτοισι κράτιστον ἀτρεμίζειν‧ πίνειν δὲ μελίκρητον, καὶ μὴ ἐξεμέειν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 19.7)
  • χαλεπώτατον δ’ ἁπάντων καὶ ἀπορώτατον ὅτι τοῦ πνεύματοσ ἀπεκεκλείμην, καὶ μετὰ πολλῆσ τῆσ πραγματείασ καὶ ἀπιστίασ μόλισ ἄν ποτε ἀνέπνευσα βιαίωσ καὶ ἀγαπητῶσ, πνιγμοί τε παρηκολούθουν συνεχεῖσ ἐν τῷ τραχήλῳ καὶ τὰ νεῦρα ἐπεφρίκει καὶ σκέπησ ἔδει πλείονοσ ἢ φέρειν δυναίμην· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:4)

Related

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION