περισπασμός

Ancient Greek

From περῐσπᾰ́ω (perispáō, “to wheel around”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

περῐσπᾰσμός • (perispasmós) m (genitive περῐσπᾰσμοῦ); second declension

wheeling around, spinning
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 10.23.3
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.18.3
(chiefly in the plural) distraction, distracting circumstances
- Metrodorus, Papyrus Herculanensis 831.7
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 3.87.9
- 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Music p.98K
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.831f
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 4.32.5
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 12.38
- 279 BCE – 206 BCE, Chrysippus of Soli, Collected Works 3.77
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ecclesiastes 2.23
- 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.22.71
(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
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 34.24

Second declension of ὁ περῐσπᾰσμός; τοῦ περῐσπᾰσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.