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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)
  • ὦ μεγαλοσμαράγου στεροπᾶσ ῥοίζημα, τί ῥέξεισ; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 1:8)
  • καὶ πρὸσ πάντα σπευδέτω καὶ ὡσ δυνατὸν ὁμοχρονείτω καὶ μεταπετέσθω ἀπ̓ Ἀρμενίασ μὲν εἰσ Μηδίαν, ἐκεῖθεν δὲ ῥοιζήματι ἑνὶ εἰσ Ἰβηρίαν, εἶτα εἰσ Ἰταλίαν, ὡσ μηδενὸσ καιροῦ ἀπολείποιτο. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 50 1:3)
  • εἴ ποτε δὲ τραγικῷ ῥοιζήματι ῥήξατο φωνήν, αὐτῆσ Μελπομένησ βόμβον ἀπεπλάσατο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2222)

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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