Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐμπρόσθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμπρόσθιος ἐμπρόσθιη ἐμπρόσθιον

Structure: ἐμπροσθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)/mprosqen

Sense

  1. fore, front

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

  • τοῖσ μὲν ἀνθρώποισ οἶκον, ὃσ ἦν μέγιστοσ ἐν τῷ χωρίῳ, δεκατεσσάρων πηχῶν τὸ μῆκοσ, ἀπέδειξε περίπατον, κατὰ μικρὸν ἐπιτείνειν τὴν κίνησιν κελεύων, τῶν δὲ ἵππων ἕκαστον ῥυτῆρσι μεγάλοισ εἰσ τὴν ὀροφὴν ἀναδεδεμένοισ ὑποζώσασ ἐκ τῶν περὶ τὸν αὐχένα μερῶν ἐμετεώριζε καὶ παρήγειρε διὰ τροχιλίασ, ὥστε τοῖσ μὲν ὀπισθίοισ σκέλεσιν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ ἐρείδεσθαι, τοῖσ δὲ ἐμπροσθίοισ ποσὶν ἀκρωνύχουσ ἐπιψαύειν. (Plutarch, chapter 11 4:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὡσ ποσὶ τοῖσ ἐμπροσθίοισ βαδίζουσα χρῆται καὶ τρέχουσα καὶ ὡσ χερσὶν ἀντιλαμβανομένη. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 22 3:1)
  • εὐθὺσ οὖν ὁ μὲν ἵπποσ βουλόμενοσ στηρίζεσθαι τοῖσ ἐμπροσθίοισ διεπονεῖτο τῷ τε σώματι παντὶ καὶ τοῖσ σκέλεσι, συμπασχόντων ἁπάντων τῶν κατὰ τὸν ὄγκον μελῶν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 42 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. fore

Related

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

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