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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

  • προικῶν δοῦλοι λανθάνουσι γιγνόμενοι. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 19 2:1)
  • μέγα δ’ ἂν οἶμαι στενάξαι τὸν πατέρ’ ἡμῶν, εἰ αἴσθοιτο τῶν προικῶν καὶ τῶν δωρεῶν ὧν αὐτὸσ τούτοισ ἔδωκεν, ὑπὲρ τούτων τῆσ ἐπωβελίασ τὸν αὑτοῦ υἱὸν ἐμὲ κινδυνεύοντα, καὶ ἄλλουσ μέν τινασ ἤδη τῶν πολιτῶν οὐ μόνον συγγενῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ φίλων ἀνδρῶν ἀπορούντων θυγατέρασ παρὰ σφῶν αὐτῶν ἐκδόντασ, Ἄφοβον δὲ μηδ’ ἣν ἔλαβεν προῖκ’ ἐθέλοντ’ ἀποδοῦναι, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἔτει δεκάτῳ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 90:1)
  • κἀγὼ προσέμεινα οὐκ ἀηδῶσ, ἐνθυμούμενοσ ἅμα τῶν πλουσίων ὁποῖά ἐστι τά τε ἄλλα καὶ τὰ περὶ τοὺσ γάμουσ, προμνηστριῶν τε πέρι καὶ ἐξετάσεων οὐσιῶν τε καὶ γένουσ, προικῶν τε καὶ ἕδνων καὶ ὑποσχέσεων καὶἀπατῶν, ὁμολογιῶν τε καὶ συγγραφῶν, καὶ τελευταῖον πολλάκισ ἐν αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ γάμοισ λοιδοριῶν καὶ ἀπεχθειῶν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 96:1)

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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