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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

  • ἢ οὐκ οἶσθα τοὺσ μέν τινασ ὠφελημένουσ, τοὺσ δὲ καὶ βεβλαμμένουσ ἀπό τε προβατείασ καὶ ὀνηλασίασ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:1)

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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