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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

  • δισσοὺσ σταλαγμοὺσ αἵματοσ Γοργοῦσ ἄπο. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 5:7)
  • γυναῖκεσ γοῦν ἀνδρῶν καὶ παῖδεσ πατέρων, καὶ τὸ οἰκτρότατον, μητέρεσ νηπίων ἐξήρπαζον ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν στομάτων τὰσ τροφάσ, καὶ τῶν φιλτάτων ἐν χερσὶ μαραινομένων οὐκ ἦν φειδὼ τοὺσ τοῦ ζῆν ἀφελέσθαι σταλαγμούσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 486:1)
  • καὶ τούτουσ δὲ νύκτωρ πέτεσθαι, σταλαγμοὺσ ἀφιέντασ οὔρων, τοὺσ δὲ ἱδρώτων, διασήποντασ τὸν χρῶτα τοῦ μὴ φυλαξαμένου· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 74:11)

Related

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

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