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προφῆτις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προφῆτις προφῆτιδος

Structure: προφητιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of profh/ths

Sense

  1. prophet (female)

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

  • "ἐπεὶ δὲ τῷ θεῷ δόξαν οὕτωσ ἥ θ’ Ἑλλὰσ ἐρρώσθη πόλεσι καὶ τὸ χωρίον ἀνθρώποισ ἐπλήθυνε, δυσὶν ἐχρῶντο προφήτισιν ἐν μέρει καθιεμέναισ, καὶ τρίτη δ’ ἔφεδροσ ἦν ἀποδεδειγμένη. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 8 1:9)

Related

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

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