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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προπαιδεία προπαιδείᾱ προπαιδεῖαι
Genitive προπαιδείᾱς προπαιδείαιν προπαιδειῶν
Dative προπαιδείᾱͅ προπαιδείαιν προπαιδείαις
Accusative προπαιδείᾱν προπαιδείᾱ προπαιδείᾱς
Vocative προπαιδείᾱ προπαιδείᾱ προπαιδεῖαι

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

  • τὰ μὲν τοίνυν λογισμῶν τε καὶ γεωμετριῶν καὶ πάσησ τῆσ προπαιδείασ, ἣν τῆσ διαλεκτικῆσ δεῖ προπαιδευθῆναι, παισὶν οὖσι χρὴ προβάλλειν, οὐχ ὡσ ἐπάναγκεσ μαθεῖν τὸ σχῆμα τῆσ διδαχῆσ ποιουμένουσ. (Plato, Republic, book 7 440:1)

Synonyms

  1. preparatory teaching

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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