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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

  • δεκάζων δὲ τὸ πλῆθοσ, ἵνα μηδεὶσ αὐτῷ προφέρῃ τὰ τότε πραχθέντα, ἀλλὰ τοῦ μίσουσ καὶ τῆσ ἐπιβουλῆσ λήθην τινὰ ποιήσωνται. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 21:3)

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

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