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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523
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Full diacritics: ἐπισπαίρω Medium diacritics: ἐπισπαίρω Low diacritics: επισπαίρω Capitals: ΕΠΙΣΠΑΙΡΩ
Transliteration A: epispaírō Transliteration B: epispairō Transliteration C: epispairo Beta Code: e)pispai/rw

English (LSJ)

pant, struggle, ἐπί τινι Plu.2.327c.

German (Pape)

[Seite 980] dabei, dazu zucken, Plut. de Alex. fort. 1, 3.

French (Bailly abrégé)

palpiter, tressaillir.
Étymologie: ἐπί, σπαίρω.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἐπισπαίρω: (из-за чего-л.) трепетать, дрожать (ἐπί τινι Plut.).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἐπισπαίρω: σπαίρω ἐπί τινι, συνταράσσομαι, ἐπί τινι Πλουτ. 2. 327Ε.

Greek Monolingual

ἐπισπαίρω (Α)
λαχταρώ, αγωνιώ για κάτι.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < επί + σπαίρω «κινούμαι σπασμωδικά, τινάζομαι»].