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προκοιτία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προκοιτία

Structure: προκοιτι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from pro/koitos

Sense

  1. a watch kept before

Declension

First 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

  • αὐτοὶ δὲ τά τε λοιπὰ ῥᾳθύμωσ διῆγον, ἀπολαύοντεσ τῶν ἐκ τῆσ χώρασ ἀνέδην, τῶν τε κατὰ τὰσ φυλακὰσ καὶ προκοιτίασ ὠλιγώρουν. (Polybius, Histories, book 2, chapter 5 6:2)
  • τὴν δ’ ἐκτὸσ ἐπιφάνειαν οἱ γροσφομάχοι πληροῦσι, παρ’ ὅλον καθ’ ἡμέραν τὸν χάρακα παρακοιτοῦντεσ ‐ αὕτη γὰρ ἐπιτέτακται τούτοισ ἡ λειτουργία ‐ ἐπί τε τῶν εἰσόδων ἀνὰ δέκα ποιοῦνται τούτων αὐτῶν τὰσ προκοιτίασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 35 5:1)

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

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