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πρόβολος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόβολος πρόβολου

Structure: προβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: proba/llw

Sense

  1. anything that projects
  2. a jutting rock, foreland, a rock in the path, an obstacle, projecting barriers
  3. a defence, bulwark, a shield, guardian
  4. a hunting-spear

Declension

Second 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

  • οἵ τε γὰρ οἰκήσαντεσ ἀεὶ τὴν χώραν ἐναργῆ καὶ θαυμαστὰ τῆσ αὑτῶν ἐπιεικείασ σημεῖα ἐξήνεγκαν ἐν παντὶ τῷ παρασχόντι, τὰ μὲν ἣν οὑτωσί τισ ἂν εἴποι φιλανθρωπίαν ἐπιδεικνύμενοι τῇ τῶν τρόπων πραότητι καὶ ταῖσ ὁμιλίαισ, οὐδέσιν ἄλλοισ ὁμοίωσ ἡμέροισ εἶναι δοκεῖν λιπόντεσ, τὰ δ’ ἐν ταῖσ χρείαισ καὶ τοῖσ κινδύνοισ ἐν προβόλου μοίρᾳ τοῖσ Ἕλλησι τεταγμένοι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:7)

Synonyms

  1. anything that projects

  2. a jutting rock

  3. a defence

  4. a hunting-spear

Related

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

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