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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

  • εὔψυχοι μὲν οὖν ἔσονται, ἐὰν μὴ λείπωσι τὰ κυνηγέσια ὅταν ᾖ πνίγη· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 7:2)
  • ἁλίσκεται δὲ καὶ ὅταν ᾖ πνίγη, διωκόμενοσ ὑπὸ τῶν κυνῶν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 23:4)
  • τί γάρ, ἔφη, ἂν ὕλη πνίγῃ συνεξορμῶσα τῷ σίτῳ καὶ διαρπάζουσα τοῦ σίτου τὴν τροφὴν ὥσπερ οἱ κηφῆνεσ διαρπάζουσιν ἄχρηστοι ὄντεσ τῶν μελιττῶν ἃ ἂν ἐκεῖναι ἐργασάμεναι τροφὴν καταθῶνται; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 17 15:1)
  • ὁ δ’ ἀκρατὴσ ἔνοχοσ τῇ παροιμίᾳ ἐν ᾗ φαμὲν "ὅταν τὸ ὕδωρ πνίγῃ, τί δεῖ ἐπιπίνειν; (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 22:3)

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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