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προβοσκός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προβοσκός προβοσκοῦ

Structure: προβοσκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. an assistant herdsman

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προβοσκός προβοσκώ προβοσκοί
Genitive προβοσκοῦ προβοσκοῖν προβοσκῶν
Dative προβοσκῷ προβοσκοῖν προβοσκοῖς
Accusative προβοσκόν προβοσκώ προβοσκούς
Vocative προβοσκέ προβοσκώ προβοσκοί

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

  • ὡσ δὲ τρίτη ἡμέρη τῷ παιδίῳ ἐκκειμένῳ ἐγένετο, ἠιέ ἐσ πόλιν ὁ βουκόλοσ, τῶν τινα προβοσκῶν φύλακον αὐτοῦ καταλιπών, ἐλθὼν δὲ ἐσ τοῦ Ἁρπάγου ἀποδεικνύναι ἔφη ἕτοιμοσ εἶναι τοῦ παιδίου τὸν νέκυν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 113 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. an assistant herdsman

Similar forms

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

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