σπαδονίζω
Βίων δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Bion used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Bion said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
English (LSJ)
(σπάδων)
A make flaccid, περὶ τοῖς ὀδοῦσι.. τὰς τῆς πιμελῆς κτηδόνας Sor.1.118.
2 metaph. in trans. sense, σ. τὸν ἦχον curtail, cramp, emasculate their sound, of the short vowels, D.H.Comp.14 (as v.l. for σπανίζει).
German (Pape)
[Seite 915] wie σπάω, reißen, zerren, ἦχον, D. Hal. de C. V. 14, Schaef. zu vgl. p. 162.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σπᾰδονίζω: (σπαδών)· ― σπ. τὸν ἦχον, ἔχω ἦχον ἀδύνατον, ἐκνευρισμένον, ἐπὶ τῶν βραχέων φωνηέντων, Διον. Ἁλ. περὶ Συνθ. 14.
Greek Monolingual
Α σπαδών, -όνος]
1. καθιστώ κάτι χαλαρό, χαλαρώνω
2. μτφ. (σχετικά με ήχο) περικόπτω, μειώνω, περιορίζω.
