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πρόπειρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόπειρα

Structure: προπειρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a previous trial or venture

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

  • πρὶν γὰρ ἢ συμμῖξαι ἡμέασ ἐσ χειρῶν τε νόμον ἀπικέσθαι, καὶ δὴ φεύγοντασ καὶ στάσιν ἐκλείποντασ ὑμέασ εἴδομεν, ἐν Ἀθηναίοισί τε τὴν πρόπειραν ποιευμένουσ αὐτούσ τε ἀντία δούλων τῶν ἡμετέρων τασσομένουσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 48 3:2)

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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