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πράσον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πράσον

Structure: πρας (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. leek, Allium porrum

Declension

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

  • πάντα τρόπον, ἐν κλίμακι δήσασ κρεμάσασ ὑστριχίδι μαστιγῶν, δέρων, στρεβλῶν, ἔτι δ’ ἐσ τὰσ ῥῖνασ ὄξοσ ἐγχέων, πλίνθουσ ἐπιτιθείσ, πάντα τἄλλα, πλὴν πράσῳ μὴ τύπτε τοῦτον μηδὲ γητείῳ νέῳ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, iambics15)
  • ἐκ δὲ Λεβῆνοσ ἦν Λευκοκόμασ τε καὶ ὁ ἐραστὴσ αὐτοῦ Εὐξύνθετοσ, οὓσ ἱστορεῖ Θεόφραστοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἔρωτοσ λόγῳ, ἄθλων ὧν ὁ Λευκοκόμασ τῷ Εὐξυνθέτῳ προσέταξεν ἕνα φήσασ εἶναι τοῦτον, τὸν ἐν Πράσῳ κύνα ἀναγαγεῖν αὐτῷ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 4 17:1)

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