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προβατεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προβατεία

Structure: προβατει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: probateu/w

Sense

  1. a keeping of sheep, a shepherd's life
  2. property in cattle, a flock of sheep

Declension

First 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

  • ἔχει δὲ καὶ προβατείαν ὑποδιφθέρου καὶ μαλακῆσ ἐρέασ, ἧσ καθ’ ὅλην τὴν Καππαδοκίαν καὶ τὸν Πόντον σφόδρα πολλὴ σπάνισ ἐστί· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 26:2)
  • τούτων Ιὤβηλοσ μὲν ἐξ Ἄδασ γεγονὼσ σκηνὰσ ἐπήξατο καὶ προβατείαν ἠγάπησεν, Ιοὔβαλοσ δέ, ὁμομήτριοσ δ’ ἦν αὐτῷ, μουσικὴν ἤσκησε καὶ ψαλτήρια καὶ κιθάρασ ἐπενόησεν, Ιοὐβῆλοσ δὲ τῶν ἐκ τῆσ ἑτέρασ γεγονότων ἰσχύι πάντασ ὑπερβαλὼν τὰ πολεμικὰ διαπρεπῶσ μετῆλθεν ἐκ τούτων καὶ τὰ πρὸσ ἡδονὴν τοῦ σώματοσ ἐκπορίζων, χαλκείαν τε πρῶτοσ ἐπενόησεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 77:1)

Synonyms

  1. property in cattle

Related

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

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