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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From στενάζω (stenázō, “to sigh, groan”) + -μᾰ (-ma, result noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sté.naŋ.ma/ → /ˈste.naɣ.ma/ → /ˈste.naɣ.ma/
Noun
στένᾰγμᾰ • (sténagma) n (genitive στενᾰ́γμᾰτος); third declension
- sigh, groan
429 BCE,
Sophocles,
Oedipus the King 4–5:
- Πόλις δ’ ὁμοῦ μὲν θυμιαμάτων γέμει,
ὁμοῦ δὲ παιάνων τε καὶ στεναγμάτων.- Pólis d’ homoû mèn thumiamátōn gémei,
homoû dè paiánōn te kaì stenagmátōn. - The city is full of both incense-offerings,
as well as paeans and groans.
Declension
Further reading
- “στέναγμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “στέναγμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- στέναγμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “στέναγμα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011