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πρόφαντος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόφαντος πρόφαντον

Structure: προφαντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: profai/nw

Sense

  1. far seen, far-famed
  2. foreshewn, oracles

Examples

  • πρόφαντα δέ σφι ἔν τε Δωδώνῃ καὶ ἐν Δελφοῖσι ἐγίνετο, ἐπείτε ἐπειρώτων τοὺσ προφήτασ τὸ αἴτιον τοῦ παρεόντοσ κακοῦ, οἳ δὲ αὐτοῖσι ἔφραζον ὅτι ἀδίκωσ τὸν φύλακον τῶν ἱρῶν προβάτων Εὐήνιον τῆσ ὄψιοσ ἐστέρησαν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 93 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. far seen

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

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