περισπασμός
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.ris.paz.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pɛ.ris.pazˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pe.ris.pazˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pe.ris.pazˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pe.ris.pazˈmos/
Noun
περῐσπᾰσμός • (perispasmós) m (genitive περῐσπᾰσμοῦ); second declension
- wheeling around, spinning
- (chiefly in the plural) distraction, distracting circumstances
- Metrodorus, Papyrus Herculanensis 831.7
- (grammar) circumflex accent
- late 1st C. BC, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Περὶ Συνθέσεως Ὀνομάτων in The Critical Essays II (LCL 466, 1985), ch. xi, ¶ 4 (p. 80, ll. 15–16):
- τοῦ τε ‛κτυπεῖτε’ ὁ περισπασμὸς ἠφάνισται· μιᾷ γὰρ αἱ δύο συλλαβαὶ λέγονται τάσει.
- The circumflex accent on κτυπεῖτε has been eliminated, for the two syllables are uttered at the same pitch. ― translation from: Stephen Usher, op. cit. LCL 466 (1985), ch. xi, ¶ 4, p. 81, ll. 15–17
- τοῦ τε ‛κτυπεῖτε’ ὁ περισπασμὸς ἠφάνισται· μιᾷ γὰρ αἱ δύο συλλαβαὶ λέγονται τάσει.
- late 1st C. BC, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Περὶ Συνθέσεως Ὀνομάτων in The Critical Essays II (LCL 466, 1985), ch. xi, ¶ 4 (p. 80, ll. 15–16):
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ περῐσπᾰσμός ho perispasmós |
τὼ περῐσπᾰσμώ tṑ perispasmṓ |
οἱ περῐσπᾰσμοί hoi perispasmoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ περῐσπᾰσμοῦ toû perispasmoû |
τοῖν περῐσπᾰσμοῖν toîn perispasmoîn |
τῶν περῐσπᾰσμῶν tôn perispasmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ περῐσπᾰσμῷ tôi perispasmôi |
τοῖν περῐσπᾰσμοῖν toîn perispasmoîn |
τοῖς περῐσπᾰσμοῖς toîs perispasmoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν περῐσπᾰσμόν tòn perispasmón |
τὼ περῐσπᾰσμώ tṑ perispasmṓ |
τοὺς περῐσπᾰσμούς toùs perispasmoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | περῐσπᾰσμέ perispasmé |
περῐσπᾰσμώ perispasmṓ |
περῐσπᾰσμοί perispasmoí | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (distraction, distracting circumstances): περίσπᾰσις (períspasis)
- (circumflex accent): περίσπᾰσις (períspasis)
Descendants
- Latin: perispasmus
- English: perispasm
Further reading
- περισπασμός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- περισπασμός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- περισπασμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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