Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • πρηνὴσ δ’ ἐν κονίῃσι χαμαὶ πέσεν ἔγχεοσ ὁρμῇ. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 34:1)
  • πίπτω δὲ πρηνήσ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:11)
  • μετενδὺσ οὖν μέλαιναν ἐσθῆτα καὶ τὸ ξίφοσ ἀπαρτησάμενοσ ἐκ τοῦ αὐχένοσ καθ’ ὁδὸν ἑτέραν, ᾗ μηδένα μοι τῶν πολεμίων ὑπαντιάσειν ᾤμην, ᾔειν εἰσ τὸν ἱππόδρομον, ἄφνω τε φανεὶσ καὶ πρηνὴσ πεσὼν καὶ τὴν γῆν δάκρυσιν φύρων ἐλεεινὸσ ἔδοξα πᾶσιν. (Flavius Josephus, 166:2)
  • "ὁ δὲ καλούμενοσ φίλοσ τραπέζησ μὲν οὐ κοινωνεῖ, χαμαὶ δ’ ὑποκαθήμενοσ ἐφ’ ὑψηλῆσ κλίνησ κατακειμένῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ τὸ παραβληθὲν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ κυνιστὶ σιτεῖται καὶ πολλάκισ διὰ τὴν τυχοῦσαν αἰτίαν ἀποσπασθεὶσ τοῦ χαμαιπετοῦσ δείπνου ῥάβδοισ καὶ ἱμᾶσιν ἀστραγαλωτοῖσ μαστιγοῦται καὶ γενόμενοσ αἱμόφυρτοσ τὸν τιμωρησάμενον ὡσ εὐεργέτην ἐπὶ τὸ ἔδαφοσ πρηνὴσ προσπεσὼν προσκυνεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 381)
  • τρὶσ μὲν ἐπειρήθη, τρὶσ δ’ ἔσχετο, τέτρατον αὖτισ λέκτροισιν πρηνὴσ ἐνικάππεσεν εἱλιχθεῖσα. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 11:30)

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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