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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
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

  • ἀπὸ πνιγμοῦ πυρᾶσ κυκλόθεν καὶ ἐκ μέσου πυρόσ, οὗ οὐκ ἐξέκαυσα. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 51:4)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ πνιγμοῦ γράφει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 73 3:1)
  • Οὐδὲν δὲ κωλύει καὶ πρὸσ τὰ ἄλλα ἀλγήματα τῶν πλευρέων χλιάσματα προστιθέναι καὶ κηρώματα‧ ἀλείφειν δὲ σκέλεα καὶ ὀσφὺν θερμῷ, καὶ λίποσ ἐγκαταλείφειν‧ ἐπὶ δὲ ὑποχόνδρια λίνου σπέρμα καταπλάσσειν ἑώσ μαζῶν‧ ἀκμαζούσησ δὲ τῆσ περιπλευμονίησ, ἀβοήθητον μὴ ἀνακαθαιρομένου, καὶ πονηρὸν ἢν δύσπνοοσ ᾖ, καὶ οὖρα λεπτὰ καὶ δριμέα, καὶ ἱδρῶτεσ περὶ τράχηλον καὶ κεφαλὴν γίγνωνται‧ οἱ τοιοῦτοι ἱδρῶτεσ πονηροὶ, ὑπὸ πνιγμοῦ καὶ Ῥωγμῆσ καὶ βίησ ἐπικρατεόντων τῶν νουσημάτων, ἢν μὴ οὖρα πολλὰ καὶ παχέα ὁρμήσῃ, καὶ πτύσματα πέπονα ἔλθῃ‧ ὅ τι δ’ἂν τούτων αὐτοματίσῃ, λύσει τὸ νούσημα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 11.5)
  • Περὶ πνιγμοῦ α’ Περὶ παραφροσυνησ α’. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. b'. QEOFRASTOS 10:16)

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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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