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Definition of Breathings
1. breathing [n] - See also: breathing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breathings
Literary usage of Breathings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar, for Schools and Colleges by James Hadley (1873)
"Breathings. 14. The weak sound Л, at the beginning of a word, was indicated ...
Words beginning with a diphthong take the breathings over the second vowel ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The accents and breathings perfected by the grammarians of Alexandria appear ...
Through all these MSS. is traced the growing use of breathings and accents. ..."
3. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"Breathings 8. Every initial vowel or diphthong has the rough ... Breathings are
written before capi. tals and over small letters: ..."
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