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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

  • καὶ ὕλη δὲ πολλάκισ ὑπὸ τῶν ὑδάτων δήπου συνεξορμᾷ τῷ σίτῳ καὶ παρέχει πνιγμὸν αὐτῷ. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 17 13:6)
  • καὶ πειρωμένῳ ἐμεῖν οὐκ ἀπήντα, ἀλλ’ ἦν καὶ ῥανὶσ ἀντὶ τρικυμίασ, διὰ τὸ ἐνίσχεσθαί τε καὶ πνιγμὸν φέρειν, μόλισ δ’ ἂν καὶ μετὰ πολλοῦ θορύβου καὶ πολλῆσ ἀπογνώσεωσ ἀπηλλάγην οὐκ ἀναιμωτὶ, ἀλλ’ ἀνεξαίνετο ἅπασ ὁ πόροσ καὶ καθίστατο ἀντ’ ἄλλου τραύματοσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:3)

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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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