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ψιθύρισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψιθύρισμα ψιθύρισματος

Structure: ψιθυρισματ (Stem)

Etym.: from yiquri/zw

Sense

  1. a whispering, rustling

Declension

Third 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

  • Ἁδύ τι τὸ ψιθύρισμα καὶ ἁ πίτυσ αἰπόλε τήνα, ἃ ποτὶ ταῖσ παγαῖσι μελίσδεται, ἁδὺ δὲ καὶ τὺ συρίσδεσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 1)
  • δὸσ λάβε, καὶ ψιθύρισμα τὸ ναυτικόν· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 546 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a whispering

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

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