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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

  • καὶ πρὶν μὲν αἰὲν νυχίου δείματοσ ἦν μοι προβολὰ καὶ βελέων θούριοσ Αἰάσ· (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • θηκτὸν δ’ ἐν προβολᾷ θεμένα ξίφοσ, εἶπεν, ὀδόντα ὀξὺν ἐπιβρύκουσ1̓, οἱᾶ Λάκαινα γυνά· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4332)

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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