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προμετωπίδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προμετωπίδιος προμετωπίδιᾱ προμετωπίδιον

Structure: προμετωπιδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/twpon

Sense

  1. before or on the forehead, the skin or hair of the forehead
  2. a frontlet

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οἱ δ’ ἵπποι πάντεσ οἱ μετὰ Κύρου εἶχον καὶ προμετωπίδια καὶ προστερνίδια· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 8 8:1)
  • οὗτοι δὲ οἱ ἐκ τῆσ Ἀσίησ Αἰθίοπεσ τὰ μὲν πλέω κατά περ Ἰνδοὶ ἐσεσάχατο, προμετωπίδια δὲ ἵππων εἶχον ἐπὶ τῇσι κεφαλῇσι σύν τε τοῖσι ὠσὶ ἐκδεδαρμένα καὶ τῇ λοφιῇ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 70 3:1)

Related

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

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