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προίξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προίξ προικός

Structure: προικ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a gift, present, of a present, gratis
  2. a marriage-portion, dowry
  3. as a free gift, freely, at one's own cost, without a gift, unbribed

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

  • καὶ τὸ τοῦ μὲν δικαίου τὴν δόκησιν ἄρνυσο, τὰ δ’ ἔργα τοῦ πᾶν δρῶντοσ ἔνθα κερδανεῖσ καὶ τάλαντον ἡ προίξ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 3 14:1)
  • ἢ ὅταν μέν σοι δοκῇ πάντα τὰ Ἀφόβου διασῴζειν, τό τε χωρίον ἔσται ταλάντου μόνον ἄξιον, καὶ τὴν οἰκίαν ἐν δισχιλίαισ προσέξεισ, ἥ τε προὶξ ὀγδοήκοντα μναῖ γενήσονται, καὶ ἀξιώσεισ ἔχειν ἀμφότερα· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 10:1)
  • συμβουλευσάντων δ’ ἡμῖν τῶν παρόντων, τὰ μὲν ἄλλα πάντα ἐνειμάμεθα, τὴν δὲ οἰκίαν καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ τοὺσ διακόνουσ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἐξαιρέτουσ ἐποιησάμεθα, ἵν’ ἐκ μὲν τῆσ οἰκίασ, ὁποτέροισ ἂν ἡμῶν φαίνηται ὀφειλομένη ἡ προίξ, οὗτοι αὐτὴν κομίσωνται, ἐκ δὲ τῶν παίδων κοινῶν ὄντων, ἐάν τι οὗτοι τῶν πατρῴων ἐπιζητῶσιν, πυνθάνωνται, καὶ βασανίζοντεσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἄλλῳ ὅτῳ ἂν τρόπῳ βούλωνται ζητοῦντεσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 17:2)
  • ὃσ γὰρ διὰ ταῦτ’ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ὀφείλειν εἵλετο καὶ τόκον φέρειν, ἵνα μὴ κινδυνεύοι ἡ προὶξ μετὰ τῆσ ἄλλησ οὐσίασ, πῶσ οὗτοσ ἂν ἀπέδωκεν ἤδη τὴν δίκην φεύγοντοσ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 20:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ μεγίστη προὶξ αὐτοῖσ ἐστιν ἑκατὸν χρυσοῖ καὶ εἰσ ἐσθῆτα πέντε καὶ πέντε εἰσ χρυσοῦν κόσμον· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 10:23)
  • "σαπραγόρα προῖξ. (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 5 10:1)
  • ἀπὸ τοῦ προικόσ, ἣν διαιροῦντεσ οἱ Ιὤνεσ πρόϊκα λέγουσιν, ὥσπερ ἡ προΐξ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 366)

Synonyms

  1. a gift

  2. a marriage-portion

Related

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

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