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προκάλυμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προκάλυμμα προκάλυμματος

Structure: προκαλυμματ (Stem)

Etym.: from prokalu/ptw

Sense

  1. anything put before, a curtain
  2. a covering
  3. a screen or cloak

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

  • προκαλύμματα δὲ δέρρεισ καὶ διφθέραι αὐτοῖσ ἦσαν, ὡσ μήτε πυρφόροισ βέλεσιν ἀπὸ τείχουσ βάλλεσθαι, τοῖσ τε ἐργαζομένοισ προβολὴν ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ εἶναι πρὸσ τὰ τοξεύματα· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 18 6:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ τοξεύματα ἤδη ἐσ τὴν πέτραν ἐξικνεῖτο καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀδύνατοι ἦσαν ἄνωθεν ἐξείργειν τοὺσ Μακεδόνασ ἑ̓πεποίητο γὰρ αὐτοῖσ προκαλύμματα πρὸσ τὰ βέλη, ὡσ ὑπ̓ αὐτοῖσ ἀβλαβῶσ ἐργάζεσθαἰ ἐκπλαγεὶσ ὁ Χοριήνησ πρὸσ τὰ γιγνόμενα κήρυκα πέμπει πρὸσ Ἀλέξανδρον, δεόμενοσ Ὀξυάρτην οἱ ἀναπἐμψαι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 21 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. anything put before

  2. a covering

  3. a screen or cloak

Related

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

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