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στέναγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στέναγμα στέναγματος

Structure: στεναγματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a sigh, groan, moan

Declension

Third 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

  • στεναγμόν, ὦ ματέρεσ, τῶν κατὰ χθονὸσ νεκρῶν ἀύσατ’ ἀπύσατ’ ἀντίφων’ ἐμῶν στεναγμάτων κλύουσαι. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 21)
  • οὗτοσ γὰρ ἁνὴρ ἕνεκά γε στεναγμάτων οἶδεν τί πρωκτὸσ βούλεται χεζητιῶν. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 1:13)
  • ὁρῶ δάκρυα καὶ πενθίμουσ <ἀλαλαγὰσ> στεναγμάτων τ’ ἐσβολάσ, ὅταν ἐμὰ τύραννοσ εὐπαιδίαν πόσιν ἔχοντ’ εἰδῇ, αὐτὴ δ’ ἄπαισ ᾖ καὶ λελειμμένη τέκνων. (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἄξι’ ἡμῖν τυγχάνει στεναγμάτων. (Euripides, episode, iambic13)
  • ὁ δὲ δεισιδαίμων βούλεται μὲν οὐ δύναται δὲ χαίρειν οὐδ’ ἥδεσθαι, πόλισ δ’ ὁμοῦ μὲν θυμιαμάτων γέμει, ὁμοῦ δὲ παιάνων τε καὶ στεναγμάτων ἡ ψυχὴ τοῦ δεισιδαίμονοσ. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 9 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a sigh

Related

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

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