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πνῖγος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πνῖγος πνῖγεος

Structure: πνιγο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pni/gw

Sense

  1. stifling heat

Declension

Third 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 εἶπαν οἱ παῖδεσ Σαοὺλ πρὸσ αὐτόν. ἰδοὺ δὴ πνεῦμα Κυρίου πονηρὸν πνίγει σε. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 16:15)
  • πολλά με ἀνακρίνεισ, ἐμβῆναι δέον, ἕν με πνίγει μάλιστα, ὦ Κλωθοῖ, δι’ ὅπερ ἐπόθουν κἂν πρὸσ ὀλίγον ἐσ τὸ φῶσ ἀνακῦψαι πάλιν. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 11:21)
  • ὃ δὲ μάλιστά με πνίγει τοῦτ’ ἐστίν, ὅτι μεμφόμενοι τὴν ἀνθρωποποιίαν καὶ μάλιστά γε τὰσ γυναῖκασ ὅμωσ ἐρᾶτε αὐτῶν καὶ οὐ διαλείπετε κατιόντεσ, ἄρτι μὲν ταῦροι,γεχνοἄρτι δὲ σάτυροι καὶ κύκνοι γενόμενοι, καὶ θεοὺσ ἐξ αὐτῶν ποιεῖσθαι ἀξιοῦτε. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 17:1)
  • ἢν οὖν ἡμᾶσ νομίσητε θεούσ, ἕξετε χρῆσθαι μάντεσι Μούσαισ αὔραισ ὡρ́αισ χειμῶνι θέρει μετρίῳ πνίγει· (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, pnigos1)
  • "ἐγὼ γὰρ εἰ τῶν ὑμετέρων φάγοιμί τι, μύκητασ ὠμοὺσ ἂν φαγεῖν ἐμοὶ δοκῶ καὶ στρυφνὰ μῆλα κεἴ τι πνίγει βρῶμά τι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5273)

Synonyms

  1. stifling heat

Related

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

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