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προπάτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προπάτωρ προπάτορος

Structure: προπατορος (Stem)

Etym.: path/r

Sense

  1. the first founder of a family, forefather, ancestors, forefathers

Declension

Third 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

  • ἢν δὲ κεκρατηκὸσ ἤδη καὶ νενικηκὸσ τὸ πάθοσ ἴδωμεν, οὐδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν προσαπτόμεθα, νόμον τινὰ παλαιὸν τῶν προπατόρων τῆσ τέχνησ ἰατρῶν φυλάττοντεσ, οἵ φασι μὴ δεῖν ἐπιχειρεῖν τοῖσ κεκρατημένοισ. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 4:7)
  • ἀκούοι δὴ πᾶσ ὅσπερ νυνδὴ τὰ περὶ θεῶν τε ἤκουε καὶ τῶν φίλων προπατόρων· (Plato, Laws, book 5 2:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὸ τοῦ Ἀμάσιοσ σῆμα ἑκαστέρω μὲν ἐστὶ τοῦ μεγάρου ἢ τὸ τοῦ Ἀπρίεω καὶ τῶν τούτου προπατόρων, ἔστι μέντοι καὶ τοῦτο ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ τοῦ ἱροῦ, παστὰσ λιθίνη μεγάλη καὶ ἠσκημένη στύλοισί τε φοίνικασ τὰ δένδρεα μεμιμημένοισι καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ δαπάνῃ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 169 6:1)
  • εἰ δὲ μὴ, διδάξειν αὐτοὺσ καλῶσ μετὰ τῶν προπατόρων θεῶν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 38:3)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ δυνάμεθα περιόντεσ θεωρεῖν πράγματα ἡμῖν ἀπηγορευμένα ἀξιώματί τε τοῦ νομοθέτου καὶ προπατόρων τῶν ἡμετέρων τῶν εἰσ ἀρετὴν ἀνήκειν αὐτὰ κεχειροτονηκότων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 313:2)

Synonyms

  1. the first founder of a family

Related

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

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