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προαύλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: προαύλιον προαύλιου

Structure: προαυλι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: au)lo/s

Sense

  1. a prelude on the flute

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προαύλιον προαυλίω προαύλια
Genitive προαυλίου προαυλίοιν προαυλίων
Dative προαυλίῳ προαυλίοιν προαυλίοις
Accusative προαύλιον προαυλίω προαύλια
Vocative προαύλιον προαυλίω προαύλια

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

  • τὸ μὲν οὖν προοίμιόν ἐστιν ἀρχὴ λόγου, ὅπερ ἐν ποιήσει πρόλογοσ καὶ ἐν αὐλήσει προαύλιον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 1:1)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν προαύλιον ὅμοιον τῷ τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν προοιμίῳ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 1:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ νῦν μοι ἔδοξασ ὥσπερ τοῦ τῆσ Ἀθηνάασ νόμου προαύλιον στομαυλῆσαι, τοῦτο τὸ ὄνομα προειπὼν τὸ "βουλαπτεροῦν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 208:5)
  • ὁ δὲ ἠρνήσατο λέγων Οὔτε οἶδα οὔτε ἐπίσταμαι σὺ τί λέγεισ, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἔξω εἰσ τὸ προαύλιον. (, chapter 10 259:1)

Synonyms

  1. a prelude on the flute

Similar forms

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

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