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προπαιδεία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: propaideia

Principal Part: προπαιδεία

Structure: προπαιδει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: from προπαιδεύω

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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