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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

  • "οἱ κατάρατοι δὲ οὗτοι μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ χρηστήριον, οἶμαι, καὶ ἄδυτον ἐπὶ τῇ πυρᾷ μηχανήσονται, διότι καὶ Πρωτεὺσ ἐκεῖνοσ ὁ Διόσ, ὁ προπάτωρ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ, μαντικὸσ ἦν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:87)
  • Κλέαρχοσ δὲ ὁ ἀπὸ τοῦ περιπάτου ἐν τοῖσ περὶ παροιμιῶν ὡσ παροιμίαν ἀναγράφει τὸ ἐπὶ τῇ φακῇ μύρον, ἧσ μέμνηται καὶ ὁ ἐμὸσ προπάτωρ Οὐάρρων ὁ Μενίππειοσ ἐπικαλούμενοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 51 1:3)
  • οὗτοι ἀνιπτόποδεσ, χαμαιευνάδεσ, ἀερίοικοι, κατὰ τὸν κωμικὸν Εὔβουλον, ἀνόσιοι λάρυγγεσ, ἀλλοτρίων κτεάνων παραδειπνίδεσ, οὐ χὠ> προπάτωρ ὑμῶν Διογένησ πλακοῦντά ποτε ἐσθίων ἐν δείπνῳ λάβρωσ πρὸσ τὸν πυνθανόμενον ἔλεγεν ἄρτον ἐσθίειν καλῶσ πεποιημένον; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 80 2:1)
  • ὦ Ζεῦ, προγόνων προπάτωρ, πῶσ ἂν τὸν αἱμυλώτατον, ἐχθρὸν ἄλημα, τούσ τε δισσάρχασ ὀλέσσασ βασιλῆσ τέλοσ θάνοιμι καὐτόσ; (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 27)
  • τὸν Εὐφάνησ ἐθέλων γεραιὸσ προπάτωρ σὸσ ἀείσέν ποτε, παῖ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 4 26:1)

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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