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προβλής

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: προβλής προβλῆτος

Structure: προβλητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: proba/llw

Sense

  1. forestretching, jutting, forelands, headlands

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

  • Ιὤν δὲ περὶ τῆσ Εὐβοίασ φησὶν ἐν Ὀμφάλῃ Σατύροισ "Εὐβοί̈δα μὲν γῆν λεπτὸσ εὐρίπου κλύδων "Βοιωτίασ ἐχώρισ’, ἀκτὴν ἐκτεμὼν προβλῆτα πορθμῷ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 38:8)

Synonyms

  1. forestretching

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

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