Ἆσθμα

panting

Translated by Catharine Roth31 Dec 2000Vetting: high5 revisions

3 notes · 31 words
[Meaning] breath.1 Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)sqma/zein, meaning a)sqmai/nein, that is to breathe hard.2
Babrius [writes]: "as if one suffering from illness were in pain, pretending to pant."3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἆσθμα· πνοή. καὶ Ἀσθμάζειν, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀσθμαίνειν, τουτέστι πνευστιᾶν. Βάβριος· οἷά τις νούσῳ κάμνων ἐβέβλητ' οὐκ ἀληθὲς ἀσθμαίνων.

Betacode
*)=asqma: pnoh/. kai\ *)asqma/zein, a)nti\ tou= a)sqmai/nein, toute/sti pneustia=n. *ba/brios: oi(=a/ tis nou/sw| ka/mnwn e)be/blht' ou)k a)lhqe\s a)sqmai/nwn.

Notes (3)

  1. The first part of this entry is the same or similar in other lexica.
  2. 1See LSJ at web address 1. ↩
  3. 2The verb a)sqma/zein is attested only in lexicography; a)sqmai/nein occurs from Homer on, in various genres. ↩
  4. 3Babrius 103.3-4 (an elderly lion); again at sigma 938. ↩

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α4153Ἀσθένειαweaknessα4154ᾈσθήσεταιit will be sungα4155Ἆσθμαpantingα4156Ἀσκαλαβώτηςgeckoα4157Ἀσκάλαφοςaskalaphos
Revision history5 revisions · last 8 Oct 2013
  1. cosmetic — David Whitehead
  2. tweaked note and link — Catharine Roth
  3. tweaked note 2, deleted two links — Catharine Roth
  4. augmented notes; betacode and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. added note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — Catharine Roth

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