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ῥοίζημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥοίζημα ῥοίζηματος

Structure: ῥοιζηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from r(oize/w

Sense

  1. a rushing, whirring noise or motion

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

  • ἡ δὲ πτῆσισ οὔτε κατὰ τὰσ νυκτερίδασ εἰρεσίᾳ συνεχεῖ τῶν πτερῶν οὔτε κατὰ τὰσ ἀκρίδασ μετὰ πηδήματοσ οὔτε ὡσ οἱ σφῆκεσ μετὰ ῥοιζήματοσ, ἀλλ’ εὐκαμπὴσ πρὸσ ὅ τι ἂν μέροσ ὁρμήσῃ τοῦ ἀέροσ· (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a rushing

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

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