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σταλαγμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σταλαγμός σταλαγμοῦ

Structure: σταλαγμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: stala/ssw

Sense

  1. a dropping, dripping, the least drop

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

  • οἶσθ’ ἡνίκ’ ἦλθεσ Ἰλίου κατάσκοποσ, δυσχλαινίᾳ τ’ ἄμορφοσ, ὀμμάτων τ’ ἄπο φόνου σταλαγμοὶ σὴν κατέσταζον γένυν; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode17)
  • Ἱδρῶτεσ ἐπικίνδυνοι ἐν τῇσι κρισίμοισιν ἡμέρῃσι μὴ γινόμενοι, σφοδροί τε καὶ ταχέωσ ὠθούμενοι ἐκ τοῦ μετώπου, ὥσπερ σταλαγμοὶ καὶ κρουνοὶ, καὶ ψυχροὶ σφόδρα καὶ πολλοί‧ ἀνάγκη γὰρ τὸν τοιοῦτον ἱδρῶτα πορεύεσθαι μετὰ βίησ, καὶ πόνου ὑπερβολῆσ, καὶ ἐκθλίψιοσ πολυχρονίου. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 87.82)

Related

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

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