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παροίτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παροίτερος παροίτερᾱ παροίτερον

Structure: παροιτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Comp. of pa/roiqe

Sense

  1. the one before or in front

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ οὔτι παροίτερον ὕδατι νᾶεν Δίνδυμον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 19:38)
  • πειρήσω δ’ ἐπέεσσι παροίτερον ἀντιβολήσασ, εἴ κ’ ἐθέλοι φιλότητι δέροσ χρύσειον ὀπάσσαι, ἠε͂ καὶ οὔ, πίσυνοσ δὲ βίῃ μετιόντασ ἀτίσσει. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 4:10)

Synonyms

  1. the one before or in front

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

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