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σπαραγμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπαραγμός σπαραγμοῦ

Structure: σπαραγμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from spara/ssw

Sense

  1. a tearing, rending, mangling
  2. a convulsion, spasm

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

  • "καθάπερ γὰρ ἵππον ἡ παραχρῆμα τὸ πταῖσμα καὶ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν διώκουσα πληγὴ καὶ νύξισ ἐπανορθοῖ καὶ μετάγει πρὸσ τὸ δέον, οἱ δ’ ὕστερον καὶ μετὰ χρόνον σπαραγμοὶ καὶ ἀνακρούσεισ καὶ περιψοφήσεισ ἑτέρου τινὸσ ἕνεκα μᾶλλον δοκοῦσι, γίγνεσθαι ἢ διδασκαλίασ, διὸ τὸ λυποῦν ἄνευ τοῦ παιδεύειν ἔχουσιν· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 32)
  • ἦν τε οὐθὲν ἰάμα τῆσ περιωδυνίασ τοῖσ κάμνουσιν, ὅ τι μὴ κνησμοὶ καὶ σπαραγμοὶ συνεχεῖσ λωβώμενοι τοῖσ χρωσὶ μέχρι γυμνώσεωσ ὀστέων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 13, chapter 4 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a tearing

  2. a convulsion

Related

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

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