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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

  • ὅσοι δὲ αὐτῶν κάτω συννενευκότεσ παλαίουσιν, καταπίπτειν τε ἀσφαλῶσ μανθάνουσι καὶ ἀνίστασθαι εὐμαρῶσ καὶ ὠθισμοὺσ καὶ περιπλοκὰσ καὶ λυγισμοὺσ καὶ ἄγχεσθαι δύνασθαι καὶ εἰσ ὕψοσ ἀναβαστάσαι τὸν ἀντίπαλον, οὐκ ἀχρεῖα οὐδὲ οὗτοι ἐκμελετῶντεσ, ἀλλὰ ἓν μὲν τὸ πρῶτον καὶ μέγιστον ἀναμφιβόλωσ κτώμενοι· (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 24:6)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὸ τούτων δόρυ ἐξικνεῖται ἔστε ἐπὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, καὶ τοὺσ ὠθισμοὺσ τοῖσ προτεταγμένοισ σφῶν ἐγγύθεν συνερείδουσιν. (Arrian, chapter 12 4:2)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα συνεῖδον ὁπόσα τοῖσ ῥητορεύουσιν ἀναγκαῖον τὰ δυσχερῆ προσεῖναι, ἀπάτην καὶ ψεῦδοσ καὶ θρασύτητα καὶ βοὴν καὶ ὠθισμοὺσ καὶ μυρία ἄλλα, ταῦτα μέν, ὥσπερ εἰκὸσ ἦν, ἀπέφυγον, ἐπὶ δὲ τὰ σά, ὦ Φιλοσοφία, καλὰ ὁρμήσασ ἠξίουν ὁπόσον ἔτι μοι λοιπὸν τοῦ βίου καθάπερ ἐκ ζάλησ καὶ κλύδωνοσ εἰσ εὔδιὸν τινα λιμένα ἐσπλεύσασ ὑπὸ σοὶ σκεπόμενοσ καταβιῶναι. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 29:6)

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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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