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καθαρμόν (katharmon)

καθαρμόν is an Ancient Greek form of καθαρμός, meaning “purification, cleansing”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1332: θύουσα καὶ καθαρμὸν ὃν μετῴχετο,

Plutarch, Numa 15.4: … ότες ἰσχυρὰν καὶ ἄφυκτον ἅλωσιν, ἄλλα τε προθεσπίσαι πολλὰ τῶν μελλόντων καὶ τὸν ἐπὶ τοῖς κεραυνοῖς ἐκδιδάξαι καθαρμόν, ὃς ποιεῖται μέχρι νῦν διὰ κρομμύων καὶ τριχῶν καὶ μαινίδων.

All forms of καθαρμός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.