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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

  • "ἀκτῇ ἐπὶ προβλῆτι καθήμενοσ ἱερὸσ ἰχθύν, εἰ μὴ ἄλλοσ τίσ ἐστιν οὕτω καλούμενοσ ἱερὸσ ἰχθύσ Καλλίμαχοσ δ’ ἐν Γαλατείᾳ τὸν χρύσοφρυν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 20 1:4)
  • ἀμφὶ Διώνυσον, Σεμέλησ ἐρικυδέοσ υἱόν, μνήσομαι, ὡσ ἐφάνη παρὰ θῖν’ ἁλὸσ ἀτρυγέτοιο ἀκτῇ ἔπι προβλῆτι νεηνίῃ ἀνδρὶ ἐοικώσ, πρωθήβῃ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:1)
  • πολέοσ δ’ ἐπὶ πείρασιν Αἰγιαλοῖο ἀκτῇ ἐπὶ προβλῆτι ῥοαὶ Ἅλυοσ ποταμοῖο δεινὸν ἐρεύγονται· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 6:24)
  • Πούλυποσ εἰναλίῃ ποτ’ ἐπὶ προβλῆτι τανυσθεὶσ ἠελίῳ ψύχειν πολλὸν ἀνῆκε πέδα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 101)
  • ὣσ ἔφατ’, Ἀργεῖοι δὲ μέγ’ ἰάχον ὡσ ὅτε κῦμα ἀκτῇ ἐφ’ ὑψηλῇ, ὅτε κινήσῃ Νότοσ ἐλθών, προβλῆτι σκοπέλῳ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 32:1)

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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