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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

  • οὔτε κε νῆα καυάξαισ οὔτ’ ἄνδρασ ἀποφθείσειε θάλασσα, εἰ δὴ μὴ πρόφρων γε Ποσειδάων ἐνοσίχθων ἢ Ζεὺσ ἀθανάτων βασιλεὺσ ἐθέλῃσιν ὀλέσσαι· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 73:2)
  • πολλή τέ οἱ ἕσπετο τιμὴ ῥεῖα μάλ’, ᾧ πρόφρων γε θεὰ ὑποδέξεται εὐχάσ, καί τέ οἱ ὄλβον ὀπάζει, ἐπεὶ δύναμίσ γε πάρεστιν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 42:8)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὅτ’ ἐκρίνοντο θεοὶ θνητοί τ’ ἄνθρωποι Μηκώνῃ, τότ’ ἔπειτα μέγαν βοῦν πρόφρονι θυμῷ δασσάμενοσ προέθηκε, Διὸσ νόον ἐξαπαφίσκων. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:14)
  • σὺ δὲ πάτερ κτίστορ Αἴτνασ, ζαθέων ἱερῶν ὁμώνυμε, δὸσ ἐμὶν ὅ τι περ τεᾷ κεφαλᾷ θέλῃσ πρόφρων δόμεν ἐμὶν τείν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, lyric15)
  • Ὑγέεια, πρεσβίστα μακάρων, μετὰ σοῦ ναίοιμι τὸ λειπόμενον βιοτᾶσ, σὺ δέ μοι πρόφρων σύνοικοσ εἰήσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce, chapter 63 1:1)
  • συγγνοῖτο δῆτα καὶ παρασταίη πρόφρων. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 2:9)

Related

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

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