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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

  • κἀγὼ προσέμεινα οὐκ ἀηδῶσ, ἐνθυμούμενοσ ἅμα τῶν πλουσίων ὁποῖά ἐστι τά τε ἄλλα καὶ τὰ περὶ τοὺσ γάμουσ, προμνηστριῶν τε πέρι καὶ ἐξετάσεων οὐσιῶν τε καὶ γένουσ, προικῶν τε καὶ ἕδνων καὶ ὑποσχέσεων καὶἀπατῶν, ὁμολογιῶν τε καὶ συγγραφῶν, καὶ τελευταῖον πολλάκισ ἐν αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ γάμοισ λοιδοριῶν καὶ ἀπεχθειῶν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 96:1)

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

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