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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

  • "προβόλουσ δύο Λυκοεργέασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 72 2:5)
  • ἀσπίδασδὲ ὠμοβοί̈νασ εἶχον σμικράσ, καὶ προβόλουσ δύο λυκιοεργέασ ἕκαστοσ εἶχε, ἐπὶ δὲ τῇσι κεφαλῇσι κράνεα χάλκεα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 76 2:5)
  • ταῦτα μέντοι χρὴ πόρρωθεν λογιζομένουσ φυλάττεσθαι τὸν τῆσ ἀπάτησ καὶ τὸν τῶν φόβων καιρὸν, καὶ μὴ τηνικαῦτα βουλεύεσθαι περὶ αὐτῶν ἡνίκα οὐδ’ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἕξετε, μηδὲ ἀκριβῶσ αὐτὰ βουληθῆναι μαθεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἑώσ ἔξεστι προϊδέσθαι καὶ τοὺσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ ὥσπερ προβόλουσ διατηρῆσαι, τὸ τοῦ βασιλέωσ σοφὸν κρίναντασ, ὃσ ἐν τοῖσ τελευταίοισ τοῦ πολέμου διῆγεν ὑμᾶσ ἐπ’ ἀνίσων, τὴν αὑτῷ συμφέρουσαν εὔνοιαν νέμων ἀεὶ τοῖσ ἥττοσιν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 17:10)

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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