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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

  • ἐμολύνετο δὲ πάντοθεν αἵματι ὁ τροχόσ, καὶ ὁ σωρὸσ τῆσ ἀνθρακιᾶσ τῆσ τῶν ἰχώρων ἐσβέννυτο σταλαγμοῖσ, καὶ περὶ τοὺσ ἄξονασ τοῦ ὀργάνου περιέρρεον αἱ σάρκεσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 9:20)
  • ἐγγὺσ γὰρ ἤδη πάνοπλοσ Ἀργείων στρατὸσ χωρεῖ, κονίει, πεδία δ’ ἀργηστὴσ ἀφρὸσ χραίνει σταλαγμοῖσ ἱππικῶν ἐκ πλευμόνων. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 4:9)
  • μῦθοσ δὲ καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ Τιμαγένουσ λεχθὲν ὅτι χαλκὸσ ὑοίτο σταλαγμοῖσ χαλκοῖσ καὶ σύροιτο. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 114:17)

Related

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

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