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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)
  • δρόμοσ οὖν καὶ ὠθισμὸσ ἁπανταχόθεν ἐγίγνετο καὶ θυσίαι καὶ ἀναθήματα, καὶ διπλάσια τῷ προφήτῃ καὶ μαθητῇ τοῦ θεοῦ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 24:2)
  • 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)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὸ τούτων δόρυ ἐξικνεῖται ἔστε ἐπὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, καὶ τοὺσ ὠθισμοὺσ τοῖσ προτεταγμένοισ σφῶν ἐγγύθεν συνερείδουσιν. (Arrian, chapter 12 4:2)
  • ὁ γὰρ πλεῖστοσ ὠθισμὸσ τῶν νεῶν καὶ τῆσ μάχησ τὸ καρτερώτατον ἐοίκε περὶ τὸν τόπον ἐκεῖνον γενέσθαι· (Plutarch, , chapter 9 2:2)
  • ἐπεὶ τίνα δι’ ἄλλην τέχνην, ὦ χρηστὲ σύ, τὰ στόματα τῶν νεωτέρων κατακάετ’ ἢ ὠθισμόσ ἐστι δακτύλων τοιουτοσὶ ἢ πνιγμόσ, ἂν μὴ ταχὺ δύνηται καταπιεῖν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 11 1:1)
  • ἡ δ’ ὑπὸ δέουσ ἔφευγεν ἀτάκτωσ, καὶ περὶ τὰσ θύρασ ὠθισμὸσ ἦν καὶ τάραχοσ, οὐδενὸσ διώκοντοσ οὐδὲ κατε πείγοντοσ. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 18 1:2)
  • γὰρ ἐκκάει καὶ ποιεῖ διαφοράν, καὶ ὅλωσ οὐκ ἀντιπαρρησιαζομένου δόξειεν ἂν ἀλλὰ παρρησίαν μὴ φέροντοσ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ ὠθισμὸσ εἶναι. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 34 1:1)

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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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