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προβοσκίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προβοσκίς προβοσκίδος

Structure: προβοσκιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a means of providing food: an elephant's proboscis

Declension

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.

Examples

  • διόπερ πολὺσ καὶ παντοῖοσ ἐγίνετο φόνοσ, τῶν μὲν ὑπὸ τοὺσ πόδασ ὑποπιπτόντων, τῶν δὲ τοῖσ ὀδοῦσιν ἀνασχιζομένων, ἐνίων δὲ ταῖσ προβοσκίσιν ἀναρριπτουμένων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 19 6:1)
  • ταῖσ γοῦν προβοσκίσιν ἐπάλξεισ καθαιρεῖν καὶ δένδρα ἀνασπᾶν πρόρριζα διανισταμένουσ εἰσ τοὺσ ὀπισθίουσ πόδασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 86:12)

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

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