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πρόπους

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόπους

Structure: προποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the projecting foot of a mountain, its lowest part

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

  • μετὰ ταῦτα Μαρδόνιοσ, ᾧ πλεῖστον ἐδόκει διαφέρειν, τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀπεπειρᾶτο, τὴν ἵππον ἀθρόαν αὐτοῖσ ἐφεὶσ καθεζομένοισ ὑπὸ τὸν πρόποδα τοῦ Κιθαιρῶνοσ ἐν χωρίοισ ὀχυροῖσ καὶ πετρώδεσι πλὴν Μεγαρέων. (Plutarch, , chapter 14 1:1)
  • σοὶ γέρασ, Ἀλκείδα Μινυαμάχε, τοῦτο Φίλιπποσ δέρμα ταναιμύκου λευρὸν ἔθηκε βοὸσ αὐτοῖσ σὺν κεράεσσι, τὸν ὕβρεϊ κυδιόωντα ἔσβεσεν Ὀρβηλοῦ τρηχὺν ὑπὸ πρόποδα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1161)
  • καὶ τοῦτ’ ἐστὶ τῆσ χώρασ τὸ μῆκοσ, εὖροσ δ’ ἐκ Μακεδόνων τε καὶ Θρᾳκῶν τῶν ὀρείων ἐπὶ Παιονασ καὶ τὸν Ιὄνιον καὶ τὰ πρόποδα τῶν Ἄλπεων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 1:2)
  • Θόαντοσ δὲ Δαμοφῶν, Δαμοφῶντοσ δὲ ἦν Προπόδασ, Προπόδα δὲ Δωρίδασ καὶ Υἁνθίδασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 5:4)

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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