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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From στενάζω (stenázō, “to sigh, groan”) + -μός (-mós)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ste.naŋ.mós/ → /ste.naɣˈmos/ → /ste.naɣˈmos/
Noun
στεναγμός • (stenagmós) m (genitive στενᾰγμοῦ); second declension
- sighing, groaning
Inflection
Further reading
- “στεναγμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “στεναγμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- στεναγμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “στεναγμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “στεναγμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στεναγμός (stenagmós), from στενάζω (stenázō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stenaˈɣmos/
- Hyphenation: στε‧να‧γμός
Noun
στεναγμός • (stenagmós) m (plural στεναγμοί)
- sigh, groan (low sound uttered in pain or grief)
1964, Lefteris Papadopoulos/Stavros Xarchakos, Άπονη Ζωή:Μας γέννησες φτωχούς
με την καρδιά πικρή
γεμάτη στεναγμούς.- Mas génnises ftochoús
me tin kardiá pikrí
gemáti stenagmoús. - You gave birth to us poor,
With a bitter heart
Full of sighs.
- (figuratively) lament
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