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προμνήστρια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προμνήστρια

Structure: προμνηστρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: promna/omai

Sense

  1. a woman who woos or courts for another, a match-maker, who brings about

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

  • ἆρ’ οὖν ἔτι καὶ τόδε αὐτῶν ᾔσθησαι, ὅτι καὶ προμνήστριαί εἰσι δεινόταται, ὡσ πάσσοφοι οὖσαι περὶ τοῦ γνῶναι ποίαν χρὴ ποίῳ ἀνδρὶ συνοῦσαν ὡσ ἀρίστουσ παῖδασ τίκτειν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 48:2)

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

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