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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὠθισμός ὠθισμώ ὠθισμοί
Genitive ὠθισμοῦ ὠθισμοῖν ὠθισμῶν
Dative ὠθισμῷ ὠθισμοῖν ὠθισμοῖς
Accusative ὠθισμόν ὠθισμώ ὠθισμούς
Vocative ὠθισμέ ὠθισμώ ὠθισμοί

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

  • ὡσ δὲ οἵ τε ἱππεῖσ οἱ ἀμφὶ Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ αὐτὸσ ἀλέξανδροσ εὐρώστωσ ἐνέκειντο ὠθισμοῖσ τε χρώμενοι καὶ τοῖσ ξυστοῖσ τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν Περσῶν κόπτοντεσ, ἥ τε φάλαγξ ἡ Μακεδονικὴ πυκνὴ καὶ ταῖσ σαρίσσαισ πεφρικυῖα ἐμβεβλήκει ἤδη αὐτοῖσ, καὶ πάντα ὁμοῦ τὰ δεινὰ καὶ πάλαι ἤδη φοβερῷ ὄντι Δαρείῳ ἐφαίνετο, πρῶτοσ αὐτὸσ ἐπιστρέψασ ἔφευγεν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 14 3:2)
  • καὶ ἐσ στενὸν ἤδη κατειλημ[μ]ένων τῶν θηρίων οὐ μείω πρὸσ αὐτῶν οἱ φίλιοι ἤπερ οἱ πολέμιοι ἐβλάπτοντο ἐν ταῖσ ἐπιστροφαῖσ τε καὶ τοῖσ ὠθισμοῖσ καταπατούμενοι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 17 5:1)
  • "ὅτι τῶν μαχομένων πρῶτον ἔργον ἐστὶ τὸ πατάξαι καὶ φυλάξασθαι, δεύτερον δὲ συμπεσόντασ ἤδη καὶ γενομένουσ ἐν χερσὶν ὠθισμοῖσ τε χρῆσθαι καὶ περιτροπαῖσ ἀλλήλων, ᾧ δὴ μάλιστά φασιν ἐν Λεύκτροισ τοὺσ Σπαρτιάτασ ὑπὸ τῶν ἡμετέρων, παλαιστρικῶν ὄντων, καταβιασθῆναι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 10:2)

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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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