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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

  • γενομένου γάρ, εἰ τύχοι, βουβῶνοσ ἐπὶ προσπταίσματι, πρὶν μὲν πυρέξαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, οὐκ ἂν χεῖρον ἡ γαστὴρ πέψειεν· (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 870)

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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