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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

  • ἡ δὲ Ἐλπὶσ τὸ ἀπὸ τούτου ἀφανὴσ ἀποπτέσθω, καὶ μηκέτι καθ’ οὓσ εἰσῆλθε τοὺσ χρυσοῦσ θυρῶνασ, ἔκ τινοσ δὲ ἀποστρόφου καὶ λεληθυίασ ἐξόδου ἐξωθείσθω γυμνὸσ προγάστωρ ὠχρὸσ γέρων, τῇ ἑτέρᾳ μὲν τὴν αἰδῶ σκέπων, τῇ δεξιᾷ δὲ αὐτὸσ ἑαυτὸν ἄγχων. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 42:9)
  • "οὐδὲ τοῦτον σαφῶσ, ἀλλὰ εἰκάζων ὅτι φαλακρὸσ καὶ προγάστωρ ἦν· (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 22:12)
  • "ὁ μὲν γὰρ ὑδροποτῶν καὶ μεριμνῶν τὰσ νύκτασ, ὥσ φασιν, ὁ δὲ πορνοβοσκῶν καὶ μεθυσκόμενοσ κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν ἑκάστην προγάστωρ ἡμῖν ἐν ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ ἀνακαλεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 22 2:1)
  • Σμικρὸσ φαλακρὸσ τραυλὸσ ὁ Σταγειρίτησ, λαγνὸσ προγάστωρ παλλακαῖσ συνημμένοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , <*/b Ia)mbika/>74)

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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