"λοιμός" meaning in Ancient Greek

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Noun

IPA: /loi̯.mós/, /lyˈmos/, /liˈmos/, /loi̯.mós/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /lyˈmos/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /lyˈmos/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /lyˈmos/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /liˈmos/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: Of unknown etymon. The forms λιμός (limós), λοιγός (loigós) have been considered as possibilities. Compare λύμη (lúmē), λύμα (lúma), λυμαίνομαι (lumaínomai) Etymology templates: {{unk|grc|Of unknown etymon.}} Of unknown etymon., {{m|grc|λιμός}} λιμός (limós), {{m|grc|λοιγός}} λοιγός (loigós), {{m|grc|λύμη}} λύμη (lúmē), {{m|grc|λύμα}} λύμα (lúma), {{m|grc|λυμαίνομαι}} λυμαίνομαι (lumaínomai) Head templates: {{grc-noun|λοιμοῦ|m|second}} λοιμός • (loimós) m (genitive λοιμοῦ); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|λοιμός|οῦ}} Forms: loimós [romanization], λοιμοῦ [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ὁ λοιμός [nominative, singular], τὼ λοιμώ [dual, nominative], οἱ λοιμοί [nominative, plural], τοῦ λοιμοῦ [genitive, singular], τοῖν λοιμοῖν [dual, genitive], τῶν λοιμῶν [genitive, plural], τῷ λοιμῷ [dative, singular], τοῖν λοιμοῖν [dative, dual], τοῖς λοιμοῖς [dative, plural], τὸν λοιμόν [accusative, singular], τὼ λοιμώ [accusative, dual], τοὺς λοιμούς [accusative, plural], λοιμέ [singular, vocative], λοιμώ [dual, vocative], λοιμοί [plural, vocative]
  1. plague, pestilence, any deadly infectious disorder
    Sense id: en-λοιμός-grc-noun-JBs9aWYH Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension, Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 44 44 12 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension: 42 42 17 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified: 41 41 17 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 38 38 25
  2. plague, pestilence, any deadly infectious disorder
    (of person) a plague, a pest
    Sense id: en-λοιμός-grc-noun-DXNgkTe8 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension, Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 44 44 12 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension: 42 42 17 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified: 41 41 17 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 38 38 25
  3. (as adjective) pestilent
    Sense id: en-λοιμός-grc-noun-nyFafbVo Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension, Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 44 44 12 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension: 42 42 17 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified: 41 41 17 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 38 38 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ἐπιλοίμια (epiloímia), λοιμεύομαι (loimeúomai), λοίμη (loímē), λοιμικός (loimikós), λοίμιος (loímios), λοιμοποιός (loimopoiós), λοιμότης (loimótēs), λοιμοφόρος (loimophóros), λοιμώδης (loimṓdēs), λοιμώσσω (loimṓssō), προσπεπιλοιμώττω (prospepiloimṓttō)

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          "english": "For nine days the missiles of the god ranged among the host, / but on the tenth Achilles called the people to assembly, / for the goddess, white-armed Hera, had put it in his heart / since she pitied the Danaans, when she saw them dying. / When they were assembled and gathered together, / among them arose and spoke swift-footed Achilles: / “Son of Atreus, now I think we shall return home, / beaten back again, should we even escape death, / if war and pestilence alike are to ravage the Achaeans.\nEnglish translation (1924) by A.T. Murray.\nScene: Apollo causes a plague to afflict the Greek army.",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.61",
          "text": "ἐννῆμαρ μὲν ἀνὰ στρατὸν ᾤχετο κῆλα θεοῖο, / τῇ δεκάτῃ δ’ ἀγορὴν δὲ καλέσσατο λαὸν Ἀχιλλεύς: / τῷ γὰρ ἐπὶ φρεσὶ θῆκε θεὰ λευκώλενος Ἥρη: / κήδετο γὰρ Δαναῶν, ὅτι ῥα θνήσκοντας ὁρᾶτο. / οἳ δ’ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἤγερθεν ὁμηγερέες τε γένοντο, / τοῖσι δ’ ἀνιστάμενος μετέφη πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς: / «Ἀτρεΐδη νῦν ἄμμε παλιμπλαγχθέντας ὀΐω / ἂψ ἀπονοστήσειν, εἴ κεν θάνατόν γε φύγοιμεν, / εἰ δὴ ὁμοῦ πόλεμός τε δαμᾷ καὶ λοιμὸς Ἀχαιούς:»\nennêmar mèn anà stratòn ṓikheto kêla theoîo, / têi dekátēi d’ agorḕn dè kaléssato laòn Akhilleús: / tôi gàr epì phresì thêke theà leukṓlenos Hḗrē: / kḗdeto gàr Danaôn, hóti rha thnḗskontas horâto. / hoì d’ epeì oûn ḗgerthen homēgerées te génonto, / toîsi d’ anistámenos metéphē pódas ōkùs Akhilleús: / «Atreḯdē nûn ámme palimplankhthéntas oḯō / àps aponostḗsein, eí ken thánatón ge phúgoimen, / ei dḕ homoû pólemós te damâi kaì loimòs Akhaioús:»"
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          "english": "Not many days after their arrival in Attica the plague first began to show itself among the Athenians. It was said that it had broken out in many places previously in the neighborhood of Lemnos and elsewhere; but a pestilence of such extent and mortality was nowhere remembered.\nEnglish translation: Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910\nThe \"Plague of Athens\" occurred in 430 BCE, second year of the Peloponnesian War, causing a breakdown of Athens' strength, probably one of the factors causing its defeat.",
          "ref": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.47",
          "roman": "kaì óntōn autôn ou pollás pō hēméras en têi Attikêi hē nósos prôton ḗrxato genésthai toîs Athēnaíois, legómenon mèn kaì próteron pollakhóse enkataskêpsai kaì perì Lêmnon kaì en állois khōríois, ou méntoi tosoûtós ge loimòs oudè phthorà hoútōs anthrṓpōn oudamoû emnēmoneúeto genésthai.",
          "text": "καὶ ὄντων αὐτῶν οὐ πολλάς πω ἡμέρας ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ ἡ νόσος πρῶτον ἤρξατο γενέσθαι τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις, λεγόμενον μὲν καὶ πρότερον πολλαχόσε ἐγκατασκῆψαι καὶ περὶ Λῆμνον καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις χωρίοις, οὐ μέντοι τοσοῦτός γε λοιμὸς οὐδὲ φθορὰ οὕτως ἀνθρώπων οὐδαμοῦ ἐμνημονεύετο γενέσθαι."
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      "ipa": "/lyˈmos/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
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      "form": "τὼ λοιμώ",
      "roman": "tṑ loimṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ λοιμοί",
      "roman": "hoi loimoí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ λοιμοῦ",
      "roman": "toû loimoû",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν λοιμοῖν",
      "roman": "toîn loimoîn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν λοιμῶν",
      "roman": "tôn loimôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ λοιμῷ",
      "roman": "tôi loimôi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν λοιμοῖν",
      "roman": "toîn loimoîn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς λοιμοῖς",
      "roman": "toîs loimoîs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν λοιμόν",
      "roman": "tòn loimón",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ λοιμώ",
      "roman": "tṑ loimṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς λοιμούς",
      "roman": "toùs loimoús",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λοιμέ",
      "roman": "loimé",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λοιμώ",
      "roman": "loimṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λοιμοί",
      "roman": "loimoí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "λοιμοῦ",
        "2": "m",
        "3": "second"
      },
      "expansion": "λοιμός • (loimós) m (genitive λοιμοῦ); second declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "λοιμός",
        "2": "οῦ"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "epiloímia",
      "word": "ἐπιλοίμια"
    },
    {
      "roman": "loimeúomai",
      "word": "λοιμεύομαι"
    },
    {
      "roman": "loímē",
      "word": "λοίμη"
    },
    {
      "roman": "loimikós",
      "word": "λοιμικός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "loímios",
      "word": "λοίμιος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "loimopoiós",
      "word": "λοιμοποιός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "loimótēs",
      "word": "λοιμότης"
    },
    {
      "roman": "loimophóros",
      "word": "λοιμοφόρος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "loimṓdēs",
      "word": "λοιμώδης"
    },
    {
      "roman": "loimṓssō",
      "word": "λοιμώσσω"
    },
    {
      "roman": "prospepiloimṓttō",
      "word": "προσπεπιλοιμώττω"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "For nine days the missiles of the god ranged among the host, / but on the tenth Achilles called the people to assembly, / for the goddess, white-armed Hera, had put it in his heart / since she pitied the Danaans, when she saw them dying. / When they were assembled and gathered together, / among them arose and spoke swift-footed Achilles: / “Son of Atreus, now I think we shall return home, / beaten back again, should we even escape death, / if war and pestilence alike are to ravage the Achaeans.\nEnglish translation (1924) by A.T. Murray.\nScene: Apollo causes a plague to afflict the Greek army.",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.61",
          "text": "ἐννῆμαρ μὲν ἀνὰ στρατὸν ᾤχετο κῆλα θεοῖο, / τῇ δεκάτῃ δ’ ἀγορὴν δὲ καλέσσατο λαὸν Ἀχιλλεύς: / τῷ γὰρ ἐπὶ φρεσὶ θῆκε θεὰ λευκώλενος Ἥρη: / κήδετο γὰρ Δαναῶν, ὅτι ῥα θνήσκοντας ὁρᾶτο. / οἳ δ’ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἤγερθεν ὁμηγερέες τε γένοντο, / τοῖσι δ’ ἀνιστάμενος μετέφη πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς: / «Ἀτρεΐδη νῦν ἄμμε παλιμπλαγχθέντας ὀΐω / ἂψ ἀπονοστήσειν, εἴ κεν θάνατόν γε φύγοιμεν, / εἰ δὴ ὁμοῦ πόλεμός τε δαμᾷ καὶ λοιμὸς Ἀχαιούς:»\nennêmar mèn anà stratòn ṓikheto kêla theoîo, / têi dekátēi d’ agorḕn dè kaléssato laòn Akhilleús: / tôi gàr epì phresì thêke theà leukṓlenos Hḗrē: / kḗdeto gàr Danaôn, hóti rha thnḗskontas horâto. / hoì d’ epeì oûn ḗgerthen homēgerées te génonto, / toîsi d’ anistámenos metéphē pódas ōkùs Akhilleús: / «Atreḯdē nûn ámme palimplankhthéntas oḯō / àps aponostḗsein, eí ken thánatón ge phúgoimen, / ei dḕ homoû pólemós te damâi kaì loimòs Akhaioús:»"
        },
        {
          "english": "Not many days after their arrival in Attica the plague first began to show itself among the Athenians. It was said that it had broken out in many places previously in the neighborhood of Lemnos and elsewhere; but a pestilence of such extent and mortality was nowhere remembered.\nEnglish translation: Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910\nThe \"Plague of Athens\" occurred in 430 BCE, second year of the Peloponnesian War, causing a breakdown of Athens' strength, probably one of the factors causing its defeat.",
          "ref": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.47",
          "roman": "kaì óntōn autôn ou pollás pō hēméras en têi Attikêi hē nósos prôton ḗrxato genésthai toîs Athēnaíois, legómenon mèn kaì próteron pollakhóse enkataskêpsai kaì perì Lêmnon kaì en állois khōríois, ou méntoi tosoûtós ge loimòs oudè phthorà hoútōs anthrṓpōn oudamoû emnēmoneúeto genésthai.",
          "text": "καὶ ὄντων αὐτῶν οὐ πολλάς πω ἡμέρας ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ ἡ νόσος πρῶτον ἤρξατο γενέσθαι τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις, λεγόμενον μὲν καὶ πρότερον πολλαχόσε ἐγκατασκῆψαι καὶ περὶ Λῆμνον καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις χωρίοις, οὐ μέντοι τοσοῦτός γε λοιμὸς οὐδὲ φθορὰ οὕτως ἀνθρώπων οὐδαμοῦ ἐμνημονεύετο γενέσθαι."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plague, pestilence, any deadly infectious disorder"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plague",
          "plague"
        ],
        [
          "pestilence",
          "pestilence"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plague, pestilence, any deadly infectious disorder",
        "a plague, a pest"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plague",
          "plague"
        ],
        [
          "pestilence",
          "pestilence"
        ],
        [
          "pest",
          "pest"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "plague, pestilence, any deadly infectious disorder",
        "(of person) a plague, a pest"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "pestilent"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pestilent",
          "pestilent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(as adjective) pestilent"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "as adjective"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/loi̯.mós/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lyˈmos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/liˈmos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/loi̯.mós/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lyˈmos/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lyˈmos/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lyˈmos/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/liˈmos/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "λοιμός"
}

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