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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

  • σχεδὸν οὖν καὶ γάμοσ ὁ μὲν τῶν ἐρώντων ἡνωμένοσ καὶ συμφυήσ ἐστιν, ὁ δὲ τῶν διὰ προῖκασ ἢ τέκνα γαμούντων ἐκ συναπτομένων, ὁ δὲ τῶν οὐ συγκαθευδόντων ἐκ διεστώτων, οὓσ συνοικεῖν ἄν τισ ἀλλήλοισ οὐ συμβιοῦν νομίσειε. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 34 2:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ κατοικιζομέναισ μὲν εὐθὺσ οὐ χαλεπὸν ᾤετο ποιεῖν, τὰσ δ’ ἤδη κατοικουμένασ ἐργωδέστερον μέν, ὅμωσ δὲ τάχιστ’ ἂν ὁμαλισθῆναι τῷ τὰσ προῖκασ τοὺσ μὲν πλουσίουσ διδόναι μὲν λαμβάνειν δὲ μή, τοὺσ δὲ πένητασ μὴ διδόναι μὲν λαμβάνειν δέ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 135:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ τῶν γυναικῶν σχεδὸν τῆσ πάσησ χώρασ τῶν πέντε μερῶν τὰ δύο, τῶν τ’ ἐπικλήρων πολλῶν γινομένων, καὶ διὰ τὸ προῖκασ διδόναι μεγάλασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 217:2)
  • προῖκασ δὲ ξυμπάσαισ ἐπέδωκεν Ἀλέξανδροσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 4 8:2)
  • συνιστάμενοι δὴ κατὰ μέροσ ὠλοφύροντο καὶ προύφερον τοῖσ πένησιν ἀρχαῖά τε ἔργα ἑαυτῶν καὶ φυτὰ καὶ οἰκοδομίασ, καὶ τιμὴν ἔνιοι δεδομένην γείτοσιν, εἰ καὶ τήνδε μετὰ τῆσ γῆσ ἀπολέσουσι, τάφουσ τε ἔνιοι πατέρων ἐν τῇ γῇ καὶ διαιρέσεισ ἐπὶ τοῖσ κλήροισ ὡσ πατρῴοισ, οἱ δὲ καὶ προῖκασ γυναικῶν ἐσ ταῦτα ἀνηλωμένασ ἢ τὴν γῆν παισὶν ἐμπροίκιον δεδομένην, δανεισταί τε χρέα καὶ ταύτησ ἐπεδείκνυον, καὶ ἄκοσμοσ ἦν ὅλωσ οἰμωγὴ καὶ ἀγανάκτησισ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 1 4:3)

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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