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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

  • "ὁ Κλεάρχου τοῦ πρώτου τυραννήσαντοσ ἐν Ἡρακλείᾳ υἱὸσ καὶ αὐτὸσ τῆσ πατρίδοσ τυραννήσασ ὑπὸ τρυφῆσ καὶ τῆσ καθ’ ἡμέραν ἀδηφαγίασ ἔλαθεν ὑπερσαρκήσασ, ὥστε διὰ τὸ πάχοσ ἐν δυσπνοίᾳ αὐτὸν συσχεθῆναι καὶ πνιγμῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 72 1:2)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ κατ’ αὐτὸν ἔπεσε τὸν κίνδυνον, ὁ δ’ Ἀρχίδαμοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ τὰσ πύλασ ὠθισμῷ καὶ πνιγμῷ διεφθάρη. (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 58 9:1)

Related

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

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