Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σφαδασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφαδασμός σφαδασμοῦ

Structure: σφαδασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from sfada/zw

Sense

  1. a spasm, convulsion

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σφαδασμός σφαδασμώ σφαδασμοί
Genitive σφαδασμοῦ σφαδασμοῖν σφαδασμῶν
Dative σφαδασμῷ σφαδασμοῖν σφαδασμοῖς
Accusative σφαδασμόν σφαδασμώ σφαδασμούς
Vocative σφαδασμέ σφαδασμώ σφαδασμοί

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

  • ἔστιν ἄρα τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, κἂν εἰ μή τῳ δοκεῖ, ὁ τῷ ὄντι τύραννοσ τῷ ὄντι δοῦλοσ τὰσ μεγίστασ θωπείασ καὶ δουλείασ καὶ κόλαξ τῶν πονηροτάτων, καὶ τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ οὐδ’ ὁπωστιοῦν ἀποπιμπλάσ, ἀλλὰ πλείστων ἐπιδεέστατοσ καὶ πένησ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ φαίνεται, ἐάν τισ ὅλην ψυχὴν ἐπίστηται θεάσασθαι, καὶ φόβου γέμων διὰ παντὸσ τοῦ βίου, σφαδᾳσμῶν τε καὶ ὀδυνῶν πλήρησ, εἴπερ τῇ τῆσ πόλεωσ διαθέσει ἧσ ἄρχει ἐοίκεν. (Plato, Republic, book 9 206:1)

Synonyms

  1. a spasm

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION