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σκοτοδινία

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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Transliteration A: skotodinía Transliteration B: skotodinia Transliteration C: skotodinia Beta Code: skotodini/a

English (LSJ)

Ion. σκοτοδινίη, ἡ, dizziness, vertigo, Hp.VM10, Coac.157, Morb.2.4, Pl.Sph.264 c.

German (Pape)

[Seite 905] ἡ, Schwindel, wobei es Einem finster und drehend vor den Augen wird; Plat. Soph. 264 c; καὶ ἴλιγγος, Legg. X, 892 e; Medic.

Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)

σκοτοδῑνία -ας, ἡ Ion. σκοτοδινίη [σκότος, δίνη] duizeligheid, duizeling.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

σκοτοδῑνία:головокружение Plat.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σκοτοδῑνία: Ἰων. -ίη, ἡ, «ζάλη», σκοτασμός, σκότισις τοῦ ἐγκεφάλου, vertigo, Ἱππ. π. Ἀρχ. Ἰητρ. 12. 11., 144Α, 463. 3, Πλάτ. Σοφ. 264C· πρβλ. ἴλιγγος.

English (Woodhouse)

dizziness

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Mantoulidis Etymological

(=ἴλιγγος, ζάλη). Ἀπό τό σκοτοδινιάω = σκοτοδινέωσκότος + δῖνος (=στρόβιλος). Δές γιά περισσότερα παράγωγα στίς λέξεις δίνηδῖνος καί στό σκοτεινός.