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προβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προβολή

Structure: προβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: proba/llw

Sense

  1. a putting forward, to the rest, the guard, with spear in rest, a lunging out with the fist
  2. a projection, a jutting rock, foreland or tongue of land
  3. a thing held before one as a defence, a fence, screen, bulwark, a defence against
  4. in which the plaintiff appealed to the Ecclesia to support his suit before bringing it into court

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

  • χρηστέον δὲ τῷ προβολίῳ καὶ ταῖσ προβολαῖσ τοῦ σώματοσ ὡσ εἴρηται· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 25:1)
  • αὐτὸσ δὲ μεθ’ ὧν εἶχε στρατιωτῶν προβολαῖσ χρώμενοσ ῥεύμασι ποταμῶν καὶ διώρυξιν ἀνεστρέφετο περὶ τὴν σατραπείαν, ἅμα μὲν ἐφεδρεύων τοῖσ πολεμίοισ, ἅμα δὲ πέμπων πρὸσ Σέλευκον εἰσ Μηδίαν περὶ τῶν ἀεὶ συντελουμένων καὶ παρακαλῶν βοηθεῖν τὴν ταχίστην. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 100 6:1)
  • τοὺσ μὲν οὖν κριοὺσ λίθοισ ἀπεκαύλιζον ἢ βρόχοισ ἀνέκλων ἢ φορμοῖσ ἐρίων τῆσ βίασ ἐξέλυον, τῶν δὲ βελῶν τοῖσ μὲν πυρφόροισ ὑπήντων ὕδατι καὶ ὄξει, τὰ δ’ ἄλλα προβολαῖσ ἱματίων ἢ ὀθόναισ κεχαλασμέναισ τῆσ φορᾶσ ἀνέλυον, ὅλωσ τε οὐδὲν προθυμίασ ἀνδρὶ δυνατῆσ ἐξέλειπον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 3:6)
  • ὧν οἱ μὲν ἡγούμενοι τὴν κατὰ πρόσωπον ἐπιφάνειαν ἐσκέπαζον ταῖσ τῶν θυρεῶν προβολαῖσ, οἱ δ’ ἑπόμενοι τὰσ ἐκ τῶν πλαγίων ἠσφάλιζον πλευρὰσ ὑπὲρ τὸν δρύφακτον ὑπερτιθέμενοι τὰσ ἴτυσ τῶν ὅπλων. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 22 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. a projection

  2. a thing held before one as a defence

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

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