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προνομή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προνομή

Structure: προνομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: prone/mw

Sense

  1. a foraging, a foraging expedition, foray, foraging parties
  2. an elephant's trunk

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

  • καὶ ἐγενήθη τὸ πλεόνασμα τῆσ προνομῆσ, ὃ προενόμευσαν οἱ ἄνδρεσ οἱ πολεμισταὶ ἀπὸ τῶν προβάτων, ἑξακόσιαι χιλιάδεσ καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα καὶ πέντε χιλιάδες (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 31:32)
  • α Αὕτη ἦν ἡ πραγματεία τῆσ προνομῆσ, ἧσ ἀνήνεγκεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Σαλωμὼν οἰκοδομῆσαι τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου καὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ τὸ τεῖχοσ Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ τὴν ἄκραν, τοῦ περιφράξαι τὸν φραγμὸν τῆσ πόλεωσ Δαυὶδ καὶ τὴν Ἀσσοὺρ καὶ τὴν Μαγδὰλ καὶ τὴν Γαζὲρ καὶ τὴν Βαιθωρὼν τὴν ἀνωτέρω καὶ τὴν Ἰεθαρμὰθ καὶ πάσασ τὰσ πόλεισ τῶν ἁρμάτων καὶ πάσασ τὰσ πόλεισ τῶν ἱππέων καὶ τὴν πραγματείαν Σαλωμών, ἣν ἐπραγματεύσατο οἰκοδομῆσαι ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ, τοῦ μὴ κατάρξαι αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 10:21)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐπιτηδείων ἐσπάνιζον εἰργόμενοι προνομῆσ φόβῳ τοῦ Καμίλλου, καὶ νόσοσ ὑποικούρησεν αὐτοὺσ ἐν νεκρῶν πλήθει χύδην καταβεβλημένων σκηνοῦντασ ἐν ἐρειπίοισ, τό τε βάθοσ τῆσ τέφρασ ἀέρα ξηρότητι καὶ δριμύτητι φαῦλον ὑπὸ πνευμάτων καὶ καυμάτων ἀναθυμιώσησ ἐλυμαίνετο τὰ σώματα διὰ τῆσ ἀναπνοῆσ. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 28 1:2)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ φθάσαντεσ αὐτὸν οἱ πολέμιοι, ἐπειδὴ ἔγνωσαν τὴν συμφορὰν τῶν σφετέρων, ἣν ἀπήγγειλαν οἱ περισωθέντεσ ἐκ τῆσ προνομῆσ, λύσαντεσ τὴν παρεμβολὴν ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ νυκτὶ μετὰ τὴν μάχην εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ἀπῆραν, οὐχ ἅπαντα πεπραχότεσ, ὅσα ἐβούλοντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 66 3:1)
  • ταῦτα ἀκούσασ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἔτι μᾶλλον ἦγε σπουδῇ, τοὺσ ἑταίρουσ μόνουσ ἔχων ἀμφ̓ αὑτὸν καὶ τοὺσ προδρόμουσ ἱππέασ καὶ τῶν πεζῶν τοὺσ εὐρωστοτάτουσ τε καὶ κουφοτάτουσ ἐπιλεξάμενοσ, οὐδὲ τοὺσ ἀμφὶ Κοῖνον προσμείνασ ἐκ τῆσ προνομῆσ ἐπανελθεῖν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 21 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. an elephant's trunk

Similar forms

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

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