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ἀντίπρῳρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίπρῳρος ἀντίπρῳρᾱ ἀντίπρῳρον

Structure: ἀντιπρῳρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prw/ira

Sense

  1. with the prow towards, prow to prow
  2. face to face

Declension

First/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

  • καὶ ἐσ μὲν τὸν λιμένα τὸν πρὸσ Σιδῶνοσ βιάζεσθαι ἀπέγνω διὰ στενότητα τοῦ στόματοσ καὶ ἅμα ἀντιπρώροισ τριήρεσι πολλαῖσ ὁρῶν πεφραγμένον τὸν ἔσπλουν, τρεῖσ δὲ τὰσ ἐξωτάτω ἐφορμούσασ τῷ στόματι τριήρεισ προσπεσόντεσ οἱ Φοίνικεσ καὶ ἀντίπρωροι ἐμβαλόντεσ καταδύουσιν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 20 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. with the prow towards

  2. face to face

Related

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

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