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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἀπὸ τρόπου δοκεῖ μοι σύνναοσ καὶ σύμβωμοσ ἔσεσθαι τῷ προπάτορι. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 2 3:1)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ Ἡρακλεῖ τε τῷ προπάτορι σπείσασ καὶ Ἄμμωνι καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ θεοῖσ ὅσοισ αὐτῷ νόμοσ σημῆναι ἐσ ἀναγωγὴν κελεύει τῇ σάλπιγγι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 3 2:1)
  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ θεραπευόμενα ὑφ’ ἡμῶν, ὅσα ἔμψυχα, συνεύχεται ἑκάστοτε, καὶ ἀτιμαζόμενα τἀναντία, τὰ δ’ οὐδέτερα, ὥστε ἂν ὀρθῶσ τισ χρῆται πατρὶ καὶ προπάτορι καὶ πᾶσι τοῖσ τοιούτοισ, πάντων πρὸσ θεοφιλῆ μοῖραν κυριώτατα ἀγαλμάτων ἂν κεκτῇτο. (Plato, Laws, book 11 124:1)

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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