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προπαιδεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προπαιδεία

Structure: προπαιδει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from propaideu/w

Sense

  1. preparatory teaching

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

  • "μᾶλλον δ’ ἤδη προχώρει μηδὲν ὀκνήσασ μηδὲ πτοηθείσ, εἰ μὴ προετελέσθησ ἐκεῖνα τὰ πρὸ τῆσ ῥητορικῆσ, ὁπόσα ἡ ἄλλη προπαιδεία τοῖσ ἀνοήτοισ καὶ ματαίοισ μετὰ πολλοῦ καμάτου ὁδοποιεῖ· (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:7)

Synonyms

  1. preparatory teaching

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

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