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πρόσπταισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσπταισμα πρόσπταισματος

Structure: προσπταισματ (Stem)

Etym.: from prosptai/w

Sense

  1. a stumble against something, a stumble

Examples

  • ὅμοιον ὡσ εἴ τισ ἐπὶ σταυρὸν ἀναβήσεσθαι μέλλων τὸ ἐν τῷ δακτύλῳ πρόσπταισμα θεραπεύοι. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 25:5)

Synonyms

  1. a stumble against something

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

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