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πνευμα^τ-ώδης , ες,
A.like wind or air, opp. ὑδατώδης, Arist.Mete. 380b16, 366b7, al., Epicur.Ep.1p.14U.; opp. ἀτμιδώδης, Arist.Mete. 341b9 (Comp.); π. ζῴδιον in the zodiac, opp. πυρῶδες, γεῶδες, ὑδατῶδες, Palch.in Cat.Cod.Astr.8(1).262; γράμματα π. pronounced with a strong breathing, as φ, ψ, ς, ζ, Pl.Cra.427a; aerated, “οἶνος” Arist.Pr.953b27.
2. windy, exposed to the wind, “τόποι” Thphr.CP1.8.3, Plu.2.648d; ἐνιαυτοὶ π. windy years, Arist.Mete.344b27; ὧραι -έσταται ib. 366b4.
3. flatulent, Hp.Aph.5.72, al.; “πάθη” Arist.Insomn.461a24, etc. (asthmatic, only Hp.Acut.(Sp.）55).
b. Act., causing flatulence, [κύαμοι] D.L.8.24; “ὄσπρια” Plu.2.286e.
II. of the nature of breath, whispered, φωνεῖν πνευματῶδες, of the elephant, Arist.HA536b21; “φωνὴ π.” Id.Phgn.807b35.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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