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χρεμετισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρεμετισμός χρεμετισμοῦ

Structure: χρεμετισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from xremeti/zw

Sense

  1. a neighing, whinnying

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

  • "λεόντων καὶ γαστέρεσ βοῶν καὶ τράχηλοι καμήλων καὶ ταῦτα τὰ πάθη καὶ τὰ δόγματα λόγων καὶ γραμμάτων ἀπορίᾳ τὰ θηρία βρυχήμασι καὶ χρεμετισμοῖσ καὶ καὶ πᾶσα φωνὴ γαστρόσ ἐστιν αὐτοῖσ καὶ σαρκὸσ ἡδονὴν ἀσπαζομένη καὶ σαίνουσα παροῦσαν ἢ μέλλουσαν, εἰ μή τι φύσει φιλόφωνὸν ἐστι καὶ κωτίλον. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 30 1:11)

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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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