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χάσμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χάσμη

Structure: χασμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: xa/sma

Sense

  1. a yawning, gaping

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χάσμη χάσμᾱ χάσμαι
Genitive χάσμης χάσμαιν χασμῶν
Dative χάσμῃ χάσμαιν χάσμαις
Accusative χάσμην χάσμᾱ χάσμᾱς
Vocative χάσμη χάσμᾱ χάσμαι

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

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἢν ἀριστήσωσιν μὴ συμφέροντοσ αὐτοῖσι, εὐθέωσ βαρέεσ καὶ νωθροὶ καὶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὴν γνώμην χάσμησ τε καὶ νυσταγμοῦ καὶ δίψησ πλήρεεσ· (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , x.7)
  • Ἀλύκη, χάσμη, φρίκη, οἶνοσ ἴσοσ ἴσῳ πινόμενοσ λύει. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 87.53)
  • δυσκινήτωσ ἔχει καὶ δυσμαθῶσ ὥσπερ ἀπονεναρκωμένα, καὶ ὕπνου τε καὶ χάσμησ ἐμπίμπλανται, ὅταν τι δέῃ τοιοῦτον διαπονεῖν. (Plato, Republic, book 6 390:1)

Synonyms

  1. a yawning

Similar forms

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

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