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σχισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σχισμός σχισμοῦ

Structure: σχισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sxi/zw

Sense

  1. a cleaving

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

  • Μητρόδωροσ, ὅταν εἰσ νέφοσ πεπηγὸσ ὑπὸ πυκνότητοσ ἐμπέσῃ πνεῦμα, τῇ μὲν θραύσει τὸν κτύπον ἀποτελεῖ τῇ πληγῇ καὶ τῷ σχισμῷ διαυγάζει, τῇ δ’ ὀξύτητι τῆσ φορᾶσ προσλαμβάνον τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου θερμότητα κεραυνοβολεῖ, τοῦ κεραυνοῦ τὴν ἀσθένειαν εἰσ πρηστῆρα περιίστησιν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a cleaving

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

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