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ἀκρόπρῳρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκρόπρῳρον

Structure: ἀκροπρῳρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: prw=|ra

Sense

  1. the end of a ship's prow

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εὑρόντα δ’ ἀκρόπρῳρον ξύλινον ἐκ ναυαγίου ἵππον ἔχον ἐγγεγλυμμένον, πυθόμενον ὡσ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἑσπέρασ πλεόντων τινῶν εἰή τὸ ναυάγιον τοῦτο, κομίζειν αὐτὸ ἀναστρέψαντα πρὸσ τὸν οἰκεῖον πλοῦν. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 3 8:20)
  • τὸ δ’ ἀκρόπρῳρον προφέροντα εἰσ τὸ ἐμπόριον δεικνύναι τοῖσ ναυκλήροισ, γνῶναι δὲ Γαδειριτῶν ὄν· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 3 8:23)
  • ἀλλὰ τῶν δὴ ναυκλήρων τινὰσ γνωρίσαι τὸ ἀκρόπρῳρον ἑνὸσ τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ Λίξου ποταμοῦ πορρώτερον πλευσάντων καὶ μὴ σωθέντων ὑπάρξαν. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 3 8:26)
  • ἐπανιὼν δὲ καὶ παρενεχθεὶσ εἰσ τὴν Αἰθιοπίαν τίνοσ χάριν ἢ τὰσ διαλέκτουσ ἀπεγράφετο, ἢ τὸ ἀκρόπρῳρον ἐπυνθάνετο τῆσ ἁλιάδοσ πόθεν ἐκπέσοι; (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 3 10:18)
  • ἐλθὼν δ’ οὖν εἰσ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, φωραθεὶσ ὡσ νενοσφισμένοσ πολλά, πῶσ οὐκ ἐκολάσθη, ἀλλὰ καὶ περιῄει τοὺσ ναυκλήρουσ διαπυνθανόμενοσ, δεικνὺσ ἅμα τὸ ἀκρόπρῳρον; (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 3 10:20)

Synonyms

  1. the end of a ship's prow

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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