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πρηνής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρηνής πρηνές

Structure: πρηνη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pro/

Sense

  1. with the face downwards, head-foremost
  2. down hill

Declension

Third 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

  • οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰσ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν γεγενημένασ ἀντιλήψεισ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ συνιδόντεσ, πρηνεῖσ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ρίψαντεσ ἑαυτοὺσ καὶ τὰ νήπια χωρίσαντεσ τῶν μαστῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:50)
  • ἀκούσασ γὰρ τῆσ κραυγῆσ καὶ συνιδῶν πρηνεῖσ ἅπαντασ εἰσ τὴν ἀπώλειαν, δακρύσασ μετὰ ὀργῆσ τοῖσ φίλοισ διηπειλεῖτο λέγων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:23)
  • καὶ ἔσονται μετὰ τοῦτο εἰσ πτῶμα ἄτιμον καὶ εἰσ ὕβριν ἐν νεκροῖσ δἰ αἰῶνοσ, ὅτι ρήξει αὐτοὺσ ἀφώνουσ πρηνεῖσ καὶ σαλεύσει αὐτοὺσ ἐκ θεμελίων καὶ ἕωσ ἐσχάτου χερσωθήσονται καὶ ἔσονται ἐν ὀδύνῃ, καὶ ἡ μνήμη αὐτῶν ἀπολεῖται. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 4:19)
  • ὑπὸ μὲν γὰρ τῶν λοιπῶν τε καὶ μεθυστικῶν οἱ μεθυσθέντεσ ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ μέρη πίπτουσι καὶ γὰρ ἐπὶ τὰ ἀριστερὰ καὶ δεξιὰ καὶ πρηνεῖσ καὶ ὕπτιοι, μόνοι δὲ οἱ τῷ πίνῳ μεθυσθέντεσ εἰσ τοὐπίσω καὶ ὕπτιοι κλίνονται ταν δὲ κρίθινον οἶνον καὶ βρῦτόν τινεσ καλοῦσιν, ὡσ Σοφοκλῆσ ἐν Τριπτολέμῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 67 1:1)
  • πῖπτον δ’, οἱ μὲν ὀδὰξ τετρηχότα βῶλον ὀδοῦσιν λαζόμενοι πρηνεῖσ, οἱ δ’ ἔμπαλιν, οἱ δ’ ἐπ’ ἀγοστῷ καὶ πλευροῖσ, κήτεσσι δομὴν ἀτάλαντοι ἰδέσθαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:76)

Synonyms

  1. with the face downwards

  2. down hill

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

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