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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

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

  • πρόποσισ χωρεῖ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 67 2:2)
  • δροσιζέσθω συμβολικὴ πρόποσισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1342)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἐσ Καλλισθένην ἧκεν ἡ πρόποσισ, ἀναστῆναι μὲν Καλλισθένην καὶ ἐκπιεῖν τὴν φιάλην, καὶ προσελθόντα ἐθέλειν φιλῆσαι οὐ προσκυνήσαντα. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 12 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a drinking to

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

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