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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

  • ἀρχομένου δὲ τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ ἐν χερσὶν εἶναι, ἐμβολαὶ μὲν οὐκ ἦσαν οὐδὲ ἀναρρήξεισ νεῶν, τῶν μὲν Ἀντωνίου διὰ βάροσ ῥύμην οὐκ ἐχουσῶν, ἣ μάλιστα ποιεῖ τὰσ τῶν ἐμβόλων πληγὰσ ἐνεργούσ, τῶν δὲ Καίσαροσ οὐ μόνον ἀντιπρῴρων συμφέρεσθαι πρὸσ χαλκώματα στερεὰ καὶ τραχέα φυλασσομένων, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ κατὰ πλευρὰν ἐμβολὰσ διδόναι θαρρουσῶν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 66 1:1)

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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