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σπασμός?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: spasmos

Principal Part: σπασμός σπασμοῦ

Structure: σπασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: σπάω

Sense

  1. 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

  • οἴμοι κακοδαίμων, οἱο῀ς ὁ σπασμός μ ἔχει χὠ τέτανος ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τροχοῦ στρεβλούμενον. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene18)
  • ἦ που πρὸς ὄρθρον σπασμὸς ὑμᾶς λαμβάνει· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests15)
  • αἰαῖ, ἆ τάλας, ἔθαλψεν ἄτης σπασμὸς ἀρτίως ὅδ αὖ, διῇξε πλευρῶν, οὐδ ἀγύμναστόν μ ἐᾶν ἐοίκεν ἡ τάλαινα διάβορος νόσος. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 1:4)
  • ἢν δὲ χρόνῳ μακρῷ καὶ πόνῳ πολλῷ βρασθῇ μὲν τὰ ἔνδον τοῦ θώρηκος, πνεῦμα δὲ ἐγκατειρχθὲν τὰ πάντα σείσῃ, σπασμὸς δὲ καὶ τάραχος τῶν αὐτέων ἐῄ, κλύδων δὲ ὑγρῶν ἀναπλἐῄ ἐς τὰς διαπνοὰς, στόμα καὶ Ῥῖνα, σὺν ὑγρῷ δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα, ἄνεσις δὴ τῆς πρόσθεν πνίξιος ἁπάντων ἐοίκε. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 21)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐπὶ τρώματι φιλέουσι γίγνεσθαι ὑμένος, ἢ μυῶν, ἢ νεύρων νυγέντων, εὖτε τὰ πολλὰ θνήσκουσι, ἐπὶ τρώματι γὰρ σπασμὸς θανάσιμον· σπᾶται δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ ἀμβλώμα τι ἡ γυνὴ, ἀτὰρ καὶ ἥδε οὐ μάλα περιγίγνεται. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 29)

Synonyms

  1. a convulsion

Related

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

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