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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 ἐγένετο ὅτε ὤρθρισαν τὸ πρωί̈, καὶ ἰδοὺ Δαγὼν πεπτωκὼσ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐνώπιον κιβωτοῦ διαθήκησ Κυρίου, καὶ ἡ κεφαλὴ Δαγὼν καὶ ἀμφότερα τὰ ἴχνη χειρῶν αὐτοῦ ἀφῃρημένα ἐπὶ τά ἐμπρόσθια ἀμαφὲθ ἕκαστον, καὶ ἀμφότεροι οἱ καρποὶ τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ πεπτωκότεσ ἐπὶ τὸ πρόθυρον, πλὴν ἡ ράχισ Δαγὼν ὑπελείφθη. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 5:4)
  • ἵνα δὲ συνελὼν εἴπω, μάχασ μὲν ἐν τοῖσ τετταράκοντα ἔτεσιν, ἐν οἷσ διατελῶ στρατευόμενοσ, ἀμφὶ τὰσ ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι μεμάχημαι, τραύματα δὲ πέντε καὶ τετταράκοντα εἴληφα καὶ πάντα ἐμπρόσθια, κατὰ νώτου δ’ οὐθέν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 37 3:1)
  • ἐκ τούτων οὖν τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων τά τ’ ἐμπρόσθια κῶλα καὶ τὰσ κεφαλὰσ εἰσ γῆν ἑλκόμενα ὑπὸ συγγενείασ ἤρεισαν, προμήκεισ τε καὶ παντοίασ ἔσχον τὰσ κορυφάσ, ὅπῃ συνεθλίφθησαν ὑπὸ ἀργίασ ἑκάστων αἱ περιφοραί· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 488:2)
  • ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ὃσ ἂν τὴν ὀσφῦν ὑγράν τε καὶ βραχεῖαν καὶ ἰσχυρὰν ἔχῃ καὶ οὐ τὴν κατ’ οὐρὰν λέγομεν, ἀλλ’ ἣ πέφυκε μεταξὺ τῶν πλευρῶν καὶ τῶν ἰσχίων κατὰ τὸν κενεῶνα, οὗτοσ δυνήσεται πόρρω ὑποτιθέναι τὰ ὀπίσθια σκέλη ὑπὸ τὰ ἐμπρόσθια. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 11 3:2)
  • 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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