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πρόφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόφρων πρόφρονος

Structure: προφρων (Stem)

Etym.: frh/n

Sense

  1. with forward mind, zealous, willing, ready, glad
  2. earnest, zealous
  3. readily, earnestly, zealously

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

  • πρόφρονεσ ἀντ’ ᾠδῆσ βίοτον θυμήρε’ ὄπαζε. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 48:6)
  • ἦ γάρ ῥα πάλαι τό γε φίλτερον ἠε͂ν Ζηνί τε καὶ Διὸσ υἱῖ ἑκηβόλῳ, οἵ με πάροσ γε πρόφρονεσ εἰρύατο· (Homer, Iliad, Book 22 27:12)
  • καὶ δέ τοι ἤδη πρόφρονέσ εἰμεν ἄρηι θοὴν ἀποτῖσαι ἀμοιβήν, εἴτ’ οὖν Σαυρομάτασ γε λιλαίεαι, εἴτε τιν’ ἄλλον δῆμον σφωιτέροισιν ὑπὸ σκήπτροισι δαμάσσαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 7:22)

Related

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

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