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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

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

  • ἄνθρωπον γὰρ κατεσπεισμένον παίσαντεσ εἰσ νῶτον μαχαίρᾳ ἐμαντεύοντο ἐκ τοῦ σφαδασμοῦ. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 4 10:8)

Synonyms

  1. a spasm

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

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