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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

  • ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ τὰ παλαιὰ δένδρα τὴν μακρὰν πολιτείαν οὐ ῥᾴδιόν ἐστιν ἀνασπάσαι πολύρριζον οὖσαν καὶ πράγμασιν ἐμπεπλεγμένην , ἃ πλείονασ παρέχει ταραχὰσ καὶ σπαραγμοὺσ ἀπερχομένοισ ἢ μένουσιν. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 7 9:1)
  • ταραχάσ τε γὰρ ἀμφότερα τῷ σώματι παρέχεται καὶ σπαραγμούσ; (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 22 2:2)
  • καὶ ταύτην λαβὼν αἰτίαν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ ὁ Καῖσαρ, ἄλλωσ δὲ δόξησ ἐφιέμενοσ Καὶ τοῦ πρῶτοσ ἀνθρώπων στρατῷ διαβῆναι τὸν Ῥῆνον, ἐγεφύρου πλάτοσ τε πολὺν ὄντα Καὶ κατ’ ἐκεῖνο τοῦ πόρου μάλιστα πλημμυροῦντα Καὶ τραχὺν Καὶ ῥοώδη Καὶ τοῖσ καταφερομένοισ στελέχεσι Καὶ ξύλοισ πληγὰσ Καὶ σπαραγμοὺσ ἐνδιδόντα κατὰ τῶν ἐρειδόντων τὴν γέφυραν. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 22 4:1)

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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