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προγενής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προγενής προγενές

Structure: προγενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. born before, primaeval, earlier in birth, older, our predecessors, eldest-born

Examples

  • πλὴν ὅ γε λέγων ὑπὲρ τοῦ θάπτεσθαι μέλλοντοσ, ἐπὰν διέλθῃ τὸν περὶ τούτου λόγον, ἄρχεται τῶν ἄλλων ἀπὸ τοῦ προγενεστάτου τῶν παρόντων, καὶ λέγει τὰσ ἐπιτυχίασ ἑκάστου καὶ τὰσ πράξεισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 54 1:2)

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

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