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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

  • ἀποθνῄσκουσα δ’ οὖν ἡ γυνὴ μετὰ πόνων μεγάλων καὶ σπαραγμῶν αὐτή τε συνῃσθάνετο τοῦ κακοῦ καὶ βασιλεῖ παρέσχεν ὑποψίαν κατὰ τῆσ μητρόσ, εἰδότι τὸ θηριῶδεσ αὑτῆσ καὶ δυσμείλικτον. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 19 4:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ οὗτοι καθαρθῆναι μὲν οὐ θέλουσιν, ἀεὶ δ’, ὅσαι τοῦ ἔτουσ ὡρ͂αι, μετ’ ὀδύνησ καὶ σπαραγμῶν τὸν τόκον ἀναφέροντεσ, ἐπιρρέοντοσ εὐθὺσ ἑτέρου καὶ προσισταμένου, πάλιν ναυτιῶσι καὶ καρηβαροῦσι· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 7 17:1)

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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