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ὠθισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠθισμός ὠθισμοῦ

Structure: ὠθισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from w)qi/zomai

Sense

  1. a thrusting, pushing
  2. a justling, struggling, a hot dispute

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

  • ἀγῶνα μὲν γὰρ καὶ μάχην σταδιαίαν καὶ ὠθισμὸν καὶ κόνιν καὶ τραύματα μὴ γελοῖον ᾖ λέγειν δύνασθαι φέρειν ἀνθρώπουσ ὥσπερ ἐκείνουσ τινὸσ δεομένουσ ἀναλήψεωσ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 40:6)
  • ἤδη δὲ τούτων ἀποστὰσ τῶν ἄλλων αὖθισ ἀνθρώπων ἐμέμνητο καὶ τὰσ ἐν τῇ πόλει ταραχὰσ διεξῄει καὶ τὸν ὠθισμὸν αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ θέατρα καὶ τὸν ἱππόδρομον καὶ τὰσ τῶν ἡνιόχων εἰκόνασ καὶ τὰ τῶν ἵππων ὀνόματα καὶ τοὺσ ἐν τοῖσ στενωποῖσ περὶ τούτων διαλόγουσ· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 29:1)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν πρώτη σύρραξισ οὐκ ἔσχεν ὠθισμὸν οὐδὲ ἀγῶνα πολύν, ἀλλὰ οἵ τε Θηβαῖοι ταχὺ τοὺσ Ὀρχομενίουσ ἐτρέψαντο καὶ τοὺσ Ἀργείουσ ὁ Ἀγησίλαοσ· (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 18 2:1)
  • ὡσ δὲ ταῦτα ἐπεπτώκεε, ἤδη ἐγίνετο ἡ μάχη ἰσχυρὴ παρ’ αὐτὸ τὸ Δημήτριον καὶ χρόνον ἐπὶ πολλόν, ἐσ ὃ ἀπίκοντο ἐσ ὠθισμόν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 62 3:2)

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

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