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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

  • κἀκεῖνοσ ὡσ ἤκουσε καὶ διώδυνοσ σπαραγμὸσ αὐτοῦ πλευμόνων ἀνθήψατο, μάρψασ ποδόσ νιν, ἄρθρον ᾗ λυγίζεται, ῥιπτεῖ πρὸσ ἀμφίκλυστον ἐκ πόντου πέτραν· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 4:13)

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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