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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πνιγμός πνιγμώ πνιγμοί
Genitive πνιγμοῦ πνιγμοῖν πνιγμῶν
Dative πνιγμῷ πνιγμοῖν πνιγμοῖς
Accusative πνιγμόν πνιγμώ πνιγμούς
Vocative πνιγμέ πνιγμώ πνιγμοί

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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