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προγάστωρ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: προγάστωρ προγάστορος

Structure: προγαστορος (Stem)

Etym.: gasth/r

Sense

  1. fat-paunch

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

  • χωρὶσ δὲ οἵ τε πλούσιοι καὶ τοκογλύφοι προσῄεσαν ὠχροὶ καὶ προγάστορεσ καὶ ποδαγροί, κλοιὸν ἕκαστοσ αὐτῶν καὶ κόρακα διτάλαντον ἐπικείμενοσ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 11:4)
  • τοὺσ κάδουσ μὲν οὖν καλοῦσι γαυλοὺσ πάντεσ οἱ προγάστορεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 102 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. fat-paunch

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

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