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πρᾶτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρᾶτος πρᾶτη πρᾶτον

Structure: πρατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: doric for prw=tos (contr. from pro/atos) Ar., Theocr.

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Examples

  • Ἀλκμήνα δ’ ἐσάκουσε βοᾶσ καὶ ἐπέγρετο πράτα· (Theocritus, Idylls, 15)
  • Αὐτονόα πράτα νιν ἀνέκραγε δεινὸν ἰδοῖσα, σὺν δ’ ἐτάραξε ποσὶν μανιώδεοσ ὄργια Βάκχου, ἐξαπίνασ ἐπιοῖσα, τὰ δ’ οὐχ ὁρέοντι βέβηλοι. (Theocritus, Idylls, 5)
  • "τὰ μὲν πρᾶτα ἐπιλελάσμεθα, τὰ δὲ ὕστερα οὐ συνήκαμεσ διὰ τὸ τὰ πρᾶτα ἐπιλελᾶσθαι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 11)
  • καὶ τὸ ἰόν μέλαν ἐστὶ καὶ ἁ γραπτὰ ὑάκινθοσ, ἀλλ’ ἔμπασ ἐν τοῖσ στεφάνοισ τὰ πρᾶτα λέγονται. (Theocritus, Idylls, 29)

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

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