σφυγμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σφύζω (sphúzō, “to throb”) + -μός (-mós).
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 • (sphugmós) m (genitive σφῠγμοῦ); second declension
- the throbbing of inflamed parts
- Synonym: παλμός (palmós)
- Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1259
- the beating of the heart and circulatory system, pulse
- Aristotle, On Breath 4.1
- Aristotle, On Respiration 20.1
- a vibration of the earth, quake
- Aristotle, Meteorology 2.8.12
- Plutarch, Alexander the Great 35
- (figuratively) any violent emotion
- Wyttenbach's Plutarch, Moralia 2.132D
- Wyttenbach's
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σφῠγμός; τοῦ σφῠγμοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σφῠγμός ho sphugmós | τὼ σφῠγμώ tṑ sphugmṓ | οἱ σφῠγμοί hoi sphugmoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σφῠγμοῦ toû sphugmoû | τοῖν σφῠγμοῖν toîn sphugmoîn | τῶν σφῠγμῶν tôn sphugmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σφῠγμῷ tôi sphugmôi | τοῖν σφῠγμοῖν toîn sphugmoîn | τοῖς σφῠγμοῖς toîs sphugmoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σφῠγμόν tòn sphugmón | τὼ σφῠγμώ tṑ sphugmṓ | τοὺς σφῠγμούς toùs sphugmoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | σφῠγμέ sphugmé | σφῠγμώ sphugmṓ | σφῠγμοί sphugmoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σφυγμικός (sphugmikós)
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