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προφερής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προφερής προφερές

Structure: προφερη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: profe/rw

Sense

  1. carried before, placed before, excelling, more excellent, superior, surpassing, better than
  2. looking older than one is, well-grown, precocious

Examples

  • Ἀτρέοσ ^ δὲ καὶ Θυέστεω περὶ τῇ πατρωίῃ βασιληίῃ φιλονεικεόντων ἤδη τοῖσιν Ἕλλησιν ἀναφανδὸν ἀστρολογίησ τε καὶ σοφίησ τῆσ οὐρανίησ μάλιστ’ ἔμελεν, καὶ τὸ ξυνὸν τῶν Ἀργείων ἄρχειν ἔγνωσαν ἑωυτῶν ὅστισ τοῦ ἑτέρου σοφίην προφερέστεροσ. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 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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