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προπύλαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προπύλαιος προπύλαιᾱ προπύλαιον

Structure: προπυλαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu/lh

Sense

  1. before the gate
  2. the gateway

Examples

  • Ἐλευσινίοισ δὲ ἔστι μὲν Τριπτολέμου ναόσ, ἔστι δὲ Προπυλαίασ Ἀρτέμιδοσ καὶ Ποσειδῶνοσ Πατρόσ, φρέαρ τε καλούμενον Καλλίχορον, ἔνθα πρῶτον Ἐλευσινίων αἱ γυναῖκεσ χορὸν ἔστησαν καὶ ᾖσαν ἐσ τὴν θεόν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 38 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. before the gate

Related

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

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