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σπασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπασμός σπασμοῦ

Structure: σπασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spa/w

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, οἱο͂σ 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

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

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