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πνοή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πνοή

Structure: πνο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: pne/w

Sense

  1. a blowing, blast, breeze, blasts, the blast
  2. a breathing hard
  3. breath, the breath, flame
  4. a breathing odour, a vapour, exhalation
  5. the breath

Declension

First 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

  • νῦν δ’, οὐ γὰρ ἱήσ’ οὐρίουσ πνοὰσ θεόσ, μένειν ἀνάγκη πλοῦν ὁρῶντ’ ἐσ ἥσυχον. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, iambics 6:30)
  • καὶ γὰρ πνοὰσ πρὸσ οἶκον ἤδη τάσδε πομπίμουσ ὁρῶ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 8:40)
  • ἐχέτω δὲ πνοὰσ νήνεμοσ αἰθήρ, κῦμα δὲ πόντου μὴ κελαδείτω γλαυκόν· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, anapests3)
  • σῖγα, πνοὰσ μάθω· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric1)
  • ὡσ ἐν κλύδωνι καὶ φρενῶν ταράγματι πέπτωκα δεινῷ καὶ πνοὰσ θερμὰσ πνέω μετάρσι’, οὐ βέβαια, πνευμόνων ἄπο. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. a breathing hard

  2. breath

  3. the breath

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

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