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ἀναπνοήν (anapnoen)

ἀναπνοήν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀναπνοή, meaning “breathing; respite”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 27.4: … τομάτως ὄντα φύσει νοσώδη καμεῖν λέγουσιν, οἱ δʼ αὐτὸν ὑφʼ ἑαυτοῦ φαρμάκοις ἀποθανεῖν, οἱ δὲ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς τὴν ἀναπνοὴν ἀπολαβεῖν αὐτοῦ νύκτωρ παρεισπεσόντας.

Plutarch, Galba 4.1: … διαφορούντων, ἄλλο μὲν εἶχεν οὐδὲν βοηθεῖν, αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ φανερὸς εἶναι συναλγῶν καὶ συναδικούμενος ἁμῶς γέ πως ἀναπνοήν τινα καὶ παραμυθίαν τοῖς καταδικαζομένοις καὶ πωλουμένοις παρέσχε· καὶ ποιημάτων εἰς Νέρωνα γινομένων καὶ πολ …

Aristophanes, Clouds 627: μὰ τὴν Ἀναπνοὴν μὰ τὸ Χάος μὰ τὸν Ἀέρα

All forms of ἀναπνοή (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.