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ψιθυρισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψιθυρισμός ψιθυρισμοῦ

Structure: ψιθυρισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from yiquri/zw

Sense

  1. a whispering
  2. whispering, slandering

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

  • ψιθυρισμοῦ μὲν γὰρ ἥκιστα χελιδόνι μέτεστι, λαλιᾶσ δὲ καὶ πολυφωνίασ οὐ μᾶλλον ἢ κίτταισ καὶ πέρδιξι καὶ ἀλεκτορίσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. a whispering

  2. whispering

Related

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

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