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πρόποσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόποσις πρόποσεως

Structure: προποσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: propi/nw

Sense

  1. a drinking to

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πρόποσις προπόσει προπόσεις
Genitive προπόσεως προπόσοιν προπόσεων
Dative προπόσει προπόσοιν προπόσεσιν*
Accusative πρόποσιν προπόσει προπόσεις
Vocative πρόποσι προπόσει προπόσεις

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

  • ἐπίφθονοσ δ’ οὖν ἀπὸ τῆσ προπόσεωσ ἐκείνησ πολλοῖσ τῶν παλαιῶν φίλων γεγένησαι, καὶ πρότερον ἐπὶ τῇ κατακλίσει λυπήσασ τινὰσ αὐτῶν, ὅτι τήμερον ἥκων προὐκρίθησ ἀνδρῶν πολυετῆ δουλείαν ἠντληκότων. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 17:1)
  • ἦν δέ τισ αὐτοῖσ καὶ διὰ τῆσ προπόσεωσ ἀσπασμόσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 23 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. a drinking to

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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