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ψελλισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψελλισμός ψελλισμοῦ

Structure: ψελλισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pronouncing indistinctly, unpronounced, suppressed)

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

  • διαδουμ Ἀμέλει καὶ ἄξιον, ὦ ἑταῖρε πολὺσ μὲν γὰρ ὁ ψελλισμὸσ αὐτῶν, τέλοσ δὲ τὴν μὲν φρόνησιν ἐπιστήμην ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν οὖσαν, ἀναιρεθέντων τῶν κακῶν, καὶ παντάπασιν ἀναιρεῖσθαι λέγουσιν· (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 16 1:1)
  • Σύλλᾳ δὲ διατρίβοντι περὶ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ ἄλγημα ναρκῶδεσ μετὰ βάρουσ εἰσ τοὺσ πόδασ ἐνέπεσεν, ὅ φησιν ὁ Στράβων ποδάγρασ ψελλισμὸν εἶναι. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 26 3:1)
  • ἔστι γὰρ συμπτώματα μέθησ ἐπιφανέστατα, τρόμοι μὲν ἄρθρων ψελλισμοὶ δὲ γλώσσησ, πλεονασμοὶ δὲ λαλιᾶσ ὀξύτητεσ δ’ ὀργῆσ, λῆθαί τε καὶ παραφοραὶ διανοίασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 13:1)

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

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