σφυγμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σφύζω (sphúzō, “to throb”) + -μός (-mós).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spʰyŋ.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spʰyɡˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sɸyɣˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sfyɣˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sfiɣˈmos/
Noun
σφῠγμός • (sphŭgmós) m (genitive σφῠγμοῦ); second declension
- the throbbing of inflamed parts
- Synonym: παλμός (palmós)
- the beating of the heart and circulatory system, pulse
- a vibration of the earth, quake
- (figuratively) any violent emotion
- Wyttenbach's
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σφῠγμός ho sphŭgmós |
τὼ σφῠγμώ tṑ sphŭgmṓ |
οἱ σφῠγμοί hoi sphŭgmoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σφῠγμοῦ toû sphŭgmoû |
τοῖν σφῠγμοῖν toîn sphŭgmoîn |
τῶν σφῠγμῶν tôn sphŭgmôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σφῠγμῷ tōî sphŭgmōî |
τοῖν σφῠγμοῖν toîn sphŭgmoîn |
τοῖς σφῠγμοῖς toîs sphŭgmoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σφῠγμόν tòn sphŭgmón |
τὼ σφῠγμώ tṑ sphŭgmṓ |
τοὺς σφῠγμούς toùs sphŭgmoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σφῠγμέ sphŭgmé |
σφῠγμώ sphŭgmṓ |
σφῠγμοί sphŭgmoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σφυγμικός (sphugmikós)
Descendants
- Greek: σφυγμός (sfygmós)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σφύζω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1433: “DER σφυγ-μός”
Further reading
- “σφυγμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σφυγμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σφυγμός in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “σφυγμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σφυγμός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σφῠγμός (sphŭgmós).
Pronunciation
Noun
σφυγμός • (sfygmós) m (plural σφυγμοί)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | σφυγμός (sfygmós) | σφυγμοί (sfygmoí) |
| genitive | σφυγμού (sfygmoú) | σφυγμών (sfygmón) |
| accusative | σφυγμό (sfygmó) | σφυγμούς (sfygmoús) |
| vocative | σφυγμέ (sfygmé) | σφυγμοί (sfygmoí) |
Further reading
- σφυγμός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language