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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

  • τί γὰρ ἄμεινον ἢ ταχυβάταν νεῶν κατόπταν μολεῖν πέλασ ὅ τί ποτ’ ἄρα δαί̈οισ πυρὰ κατ’ ἀντίπρῳρα ναυστάθμων δαίεται; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, strophe 13)
  • ἀνδρείασ δ’ ὕπο ἔστησαν ἀντίπρῳρα σείοντεσ βέλη Πυλάδησ Ὀρέστησ τ’. (Euripides, episode 5:2)
  • ἴδ’, ὦ φίλα γύναι, τάδ’ ἀντίπρῳρα δή σοι βλέπειν πάρεστ’ ἐναργῆ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral6)

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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