Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄν με φλαῦρον ἐργάσαισθ’ ἔτι, οἱο͂σ ἐμοὶ τρέφεται τοῖσδ’ ἐνὶ δώμασι παῖσ, ἀμφήκει γλώττῃ λάμπων, πρόβολοσ ἐμόσ, σωτὴρ δόμοισ, ἐχθροῖσ βλάβη, λυσανίασ πατρῴων μεγάλων κακῶν· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, lyric3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ συνῆλθον οἷσ ἔμελε περὶ τοῦ φρουρίου, ἐβουλεύσαντο κοινῇ φυλάττειν οἷσπερ ἀγαθὸν ἦν φίλιον ὄν, ὅπωσ αὐτοῖσ μὲν πρόβολοσ εἰή πολέμου, τοῖσ δ’ Ἀσσυρίοισ ἐπιτετειχισμένον. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 28:2)
  • ἣ θορύβου τοσούτου διὰ γῆσ ἁπάσησ καταρραγέντοσ καὶ τῶν ἠπείρων ἀμφοτέρων κρινομένων ἐπὶ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἀντέσχεν, ὥσπερ ἔρυμα καὶ πρόβολοσ, ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ ἀρξαμένη καὶ αὐτὴ τὰ αὑτῆσ ἐπιδεικνύναι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 39:14)

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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