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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

  • καὶ ποιήσεισ δύο κροσσωτὰ ἐκ χρυσίου καθαροῦ, καταμεμιγμένα ἐν ἄνθεσιν, ἔργον πλοκῆσ. καὶ ἐπιθήσεισ τὰ κροσσωτὰ τὰ πεπλεγμένα ἐπὶ τὰσ ἀσπιδίσκασ κατὰ τὰσ παρωμίδασ αὐτῶν ἐκ τῶν ἐμπροσθίων. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 28:14)
  • ἐνίουσ γὰρ αὐτῶν ἑώσ μὲν τοῦ στήθουσ καὶ τῶν ἐμπροσθίων ποδῶν διατετυπῶσθαι καὶ κίνησιν λαμβάνειν, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν τοῦ σώματοσ ἔχειν ἀδιατύπωτον, μενούσησ ἔτι κατὰ φύσιν τῆσ βώλου. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 10 2:2)
  • τελέωσ δὲ τὰ ὀπίσθια ταπεινότερα τῶν ἐμπροσθίων ἐστίν, ὥστε δοκεῖν συγκαθῆσθαι τῷ οὐραίῳ μέρει τὸ ὕψοσ βοὸσ ἔχοντι, τὰ δὲ ἐμπρόσθια σκέλη τῶν καμηλείων οὐ λείπεται· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 31:3)

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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