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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

  • τῶν ἐπιβαλλομένων ἕλκειν τὴν νεκρὰν ἢ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ εἰσ τὸ δεσμωτήριον ἀπάγειν, ἀλλ’ ἐμβοήσαντεσ ἑαυτοῖσ σὺν ὠθισμῷ τε καὶ πληγαῖσ τῶν βιαζομένων ἐξέβαλον αὐτοὺσ ἐκ τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 38 6:1)
  • ἤδη τε ὁμοῦ τοῖσ ὀνείδεσι καὶ ἔργων ἥπτοντο, ἀθρόοι τε πρὸσ ἀθρόουσ ὠθισμῷ χρώμενοι μάλιστα οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ ἀνὴρ ἀνδρὶ ἐπιόντεσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 4:3)
  • ἄρτι τε συνῄει πληθὺσ εἰσ τὸ Παλάτιον ἐπὶ προκαταλήψει θέασ πολλῷ θορύβῳ καὶ ὠθισμῷ, χαρᾷ φέροντοσ Γαί̈ου τὴν ἐπὶ τοιοῖσδε τῶν πολλῶν σπουδήν, παρὸ καὶ διακέκριτο οὐδὲν οὔτε τῇ συγκλήτῳ χωρίον οὔτε τοῖσ ἱππεῦσιν, φύρδην δὲ ἕζοντο καὶ τοῖσ ἀνδράσιν ὁμοῦ αἱ γυναῖκεσ καὶ τῷ δούλῳ ἀναμεμιγμένον τὸ ἐλεύθερον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 100:1)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ κατ’ αὐτὸν ἔπεσε τὸν κίνδυνον, ὁ δ’ Ἀρχίδαμοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ τὰσ πύλασ ὠθισμῷ καὶ πνιγμῷ διεφθάρη. (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 58 9:1)

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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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