Hellas Alive Dictionary - προβοσκις

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

προβοσκίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προβοσκίς προβοσκίδος

Structure: προβοσκιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Third 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.

καὶ τῶν προβοσκίδων ἡ δεξιὰ παχυτέρα, καὶ τὸ ὅλον σωμάτιον τρυφερὸν καὶ ὑπομηκέστερον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 130 1:2)
διὰ γὰρ τὴν δύναμιν καὶ τὸ μέγεθοσ τῶν προβοσκίδων ἐξαίροντεσ ταύτασ ὑπὲρ τὸ ὑγρὸν καὶ διαπνέοντεσ, ἅμα δ’ ἐκφυσῶντεσ πᾶν τὸ παρεμπῖπτον ἀντέσχον, τὸ πολὺ καθ’ ὕδατοσ ὀρθοὶ ποιούμενοι τὴν πορείαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 46 12:1)

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

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