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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

  • στένει δὲ καί τισ ἀμφὶ τὸν εὔροον Εὐρώταν Λάκαινα πολυδάκρυτοσ ἐν δόμοισ κόρα, πολιάν τ’ ἐπὶ κρᾶτα μάτηρ τέκνων θανόντων τίθεται χέρα δρύπτεται παρειάν, δίαιμον ὄνυχα τιθεμένα σπαραγμοῖσ. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, epode2)
  • ἴτ’ ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ χρωτὸσ σπαραγμοῖσ, ὡσ ἔτ’ οὖσ’ ἁγνὴ χρόα δῶ θοαῖσ αὔραισ φέρεσθαί σοι τάδ’, ὦ μαντεῖ’ ἄναξ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, trochees8)
  • γυμνοῦντο δὲ πλευραὶ σπαραγμοῖσ· (Euripides, episode, lyric 8:6)
  • τίν’ ἐπὶ πρῶτον ἀπὸ χαί‐ τασ σπαραγμοῖσ ἀπαρχὰσ βάλω; (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric11)

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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