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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)
  • 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)
  • ἀμέλει δὲ δεινὸσ καὶ ἕλκη ἔχειν ἐν τοῖσ ἀντικνημίοισ καὶ προσπταίσματα ἐν τοῖσ δακτύλοισ καὶ μὴ θεραπεῦσαι ἀλλ’ ἐᾶσαι θηριωθῆναι· (Theophrastus, Characters, 3:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν μέλει τῇ τέχνῃ, ἀλλὰ πλευρῖτιν λέγει μείζω νόσον προσπταίσματοσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 157:2)

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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