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τωθασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τωθασμός τωθασμοῦ

Structure: τωθασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. scoffing, jeering

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

  • ἐπιμελὲσ μὲν οὖν ἔστω τοῖσ ἄρχουσι μηθέν, μήτε ἄγαλμα μήτε γραφήν, εἶναι τοιούτων πράξεων μίμησιν, εἰ μὴ παρά τισι θεοῖσ τοιούτοισ οἷσ καὶ τὸν τωθασμὸν ἀποδίδωσιν ὁ νόμοσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 313:2)
  • γέλωτοσ δ’ ἐξ ἁπάντων γενομένου τῶν περὶ τὸ βῆμα οὐθὲν ἐπιταραχθεὶσ ὁ Νέβιοσ ὑπὸ τοῦ τωθασμοῦ τε καὶ τοῦ θορύβου, παῖε θαρρῶν, ἔφη, Ταρκύνιε, τὴν ἀκόνην, ὡσ προαιρῇ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 71 6:1)

Similar forms

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

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