Ancient Greek

Noun

σφυγμός • ‎(sphugmós) m ‎(genitive σφυγμοῦ); second declension

1. the throbbing of inflamed parts
   • Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1259
2. the beating of the heart and circulatory system, pulse
   • Aristotle, On Breath 4.1
   • Aristotle, On Respiration 20.1
3. a vibration of the earth, quake
   • Aristotle, Meteorology 2.8.12
   • Plutarch, Alexander the Great 35
4. (figuratively) any violent emotion
   • Wyttenbach's
     Plutarch, Moralia 2.132.D

Inflection

Synonyms

• (throbbing): παλμός ‎(palmós)

References

• σφυγμός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σφυγμός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette