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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

  • ἐπεὶ πρεπόντωσ ἑλένασ, ἕλανδροσ, ἑλέ‐ πτολισ, ἐκ τῶν ἁβροτίμων προκαλυμμάτων ἔπλευσε ζεφύρου γίγαντοσ αὔρᾳ, πολύανδροί τε φεράσπιδεσ κυναγοὶ κατ’ ἴχνοσ πλατᾶν ἄφαντον κελσάντων Σιμόεντοσ ἀ‐ κτὰσ ἐπ’ ἀεξιφύλλουσ δι’ ἔριν αἱματόεσσαν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 13)

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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