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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)
  • οἶσθ’ ἡνίκ’ ἦλθεσ Ἰλίου κατάσκοποσ, δυσχλαινίᾳ τ’ ἄμορφοσ, ὀμμάτων τ’ ἄπο φόνου σταλαγμοὶ σὴν κατέσταζον γένυν; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode17)
  • σὺ δ’ ἀλλά μοι σταλαγμὸν εἰρήνησ ἕνα ἐσ τὸν καλαμίσκον ἐνστάλαξον τουτονί. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics18)
  • ἦν δὲ σταλαγμὸσ ἐν στίβῳ τισ αἵματοσ; (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:62)
  • δισσοὺσ σταλαγμοὺσ αἵματοσ Γοργοῦσ ἄπο. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 5:7)

Related

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

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