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πρόπυλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόπυλον πρόπυλου

Structure: προπυλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pu/lh

Sense

Declension

Second 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

  • ΕΙΔΟΝ τὸν Κύριον ἐφεστῶτα ἐπὶ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου, καὶ εἶπε. πάταξον ἐπὶ τὸ ἱλαστήριον καὶ σεισθήσεται τὰ πρόπυλα καὶ διάκοψον εἰσ κεφαλὰσ πάντων. καὶ τοὺσ καταλοίπουσ αὐτῶν ἐν ρομφαίᾳ ἀποκτενῶ, οὐ μὴ διαφύγῃ ἐξ αὐτῶν φεύγων, καὶ οὐ μὴ διασωθῇ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀνασωζόμενοσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Amos 9:1)
  • καὶ ἐκδικήσω ἐπὶ πάντασ ἐμφανῶσ ἐπὶ τὰ πρόπυλα ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, τοὺσ πληροῦντασ τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου Θεοῦ αὐτῶν ἀσεβείασ καὶ δόλου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Sophoniae 1:9)
  • οὐκ ἂν μακρῶν ἔθ’ ἡμὶν οὐδὲν ἂν λόγων, Πυλάδη, τόδ’ εἰή τοὔργον, ἀλλ’ ὅσον τάχοσ χωρεῖν ἔσω, πατρῷα προσκύσανθ’ ἕδη θεῶν, ὅσοιπερ πρόπυλα ναίουσιν τάδε. (Sophocles, episode 4:1)
  • τὰ δὲ πρόπυλα τοῦ ἱροῦ λίθινα ἐστὶ κάρτα μεγάλα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 91 3:2)
  • ω χαψε μἑλαθμον πρόπυλὰ θ’ ἑστίασ ἐμῆσ, ὡσ ἄσμενὸσ σ1’ ἐσεῖδον ἐσ φάοσ μολών. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 1:1)
  • ὦ χαῖρε, μέλαθρον πρόπυλά θ’ ἑστίασ ἐμῆσ, ὡσ ἄσμενόσ σ’ ἐσεῖδον ἐσ φάοσ μολών. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 2:22)

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

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