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πνιγμός?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: pnigmos

Principal Part: πνιγμός πνιγμοῦ

Structure: πνιγμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πνίγω

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)

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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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