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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

  • πρὸσ Μαντίθεον περὶ προικόσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, , chapter 13 2:1)
  • οὐκέτι σύνεστιν ‐ ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὴν Σιμίχην, ὦ Μέλιττα, οἴχεται Χαρῖνοσ ‐ δἰ ἣν τοσαύτασ ὀργὰσ τῶν γονέων ἠνέσχετο οὐ βουληθεὶσ τὴν πλουσίαν ἐκείνην γῆμαι πέντε προικὸσ τάλαντα, ὡσ ἔλεγον, ἐπιφερομένην; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:4)
  • μνησθήσεται ἔτι, οἰεί, τότε τῶν δακρύων ἢ τῶν φιλημάτων ἢ τῶν ὁρ́κων πέντε ἴσωσ τάλαντα προικὸσ βλέπων; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:11)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν ὑπεξῆλθε τῆσ Σπάρτησ, Δαμοκρίταν δὲ τὴν γυναῖκα μετὰ τῶν θυγατέρων βουλομένην ἕπεσθαι τἀνδρὶ ἐκώλυον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ ἐδήμευσαν, ἵνα μὴ εὐπορῶσι προικὸσ αἱ παρθένοι. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 5 3:1)
  • ἀπεῖπαν δὲ πενθεῖν ταῖσ γυναιξί, τὴν δὲ Γαϊού Λικιννίαν καὶ τῆσ προικὸσ ἀπεστέρησαν. (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 17 5:3)

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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