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πρόθυρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόθυρον πρόθυρου

Structure: προθυρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

Sense

  1. the front-door, the door leading from the
  2. the space before a door, porch or verandah

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πρόθυρον προθύρω πρόθυρα
Genitive προθύρου προθύροιν προθύρων
Dative προθύρῳ προθύροιν προθύροις
Accusative πρόθυρον προθύρω πρόθυρα
Vocative πρόθυρον προθύρω πρόθυρα

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

  • καὶ ἀνέστη ἡ γυνὴ Ἱεροβοὰμ καὶ ἐπορεύθη εἰσ γῆν Σαριρά. καὶ ἐγένετο ὡσ εἰσῆλθεν ἐν τῷ προθύρῳ τοῦ οἴκου καὶ τὸ παιδάριον ἀπέθανε. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 14:29)
  • μὴ ὡρ́ασι μετὰ τῶν κακῶν ἵκοιθ’ ὁ τοὺσ θέρμουσ φαγών, ἐν τῷ προθύρῳ τὰ λέμμαθ’ ὁτιὴ κατέλιπε, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀπεπνίγη καταφαγών. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 452)
  • χρυσέασ ὑποστάσαντεσ εὐτειχεῖ προθύρῳ θαλάμου κίονασ, ὡσ ὅτε θαητὸν μέγαρον πάξομεν· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 6 1:1)
  • ἡρ́ωσ Αἰετίωνοσ ἐπίσταθμοσ Ἀμφιπολίτεω ἵδρυμαι μικρῷ μικρὸσ ἐπὶ προθύρῳ, λοξὸν ὄφιν καὶ μοῦνον ἔχων ξίφοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3361)
  • ἄλλον δέ τινα τῶν παίδων ἥκειν ἀγγέλλοντα ὅτι "Σωκράτησ οὗτοσ ἀναχωρήσασ ἐν τῷ τῶν γειτόνων προθύρῳ ἕστηκεν, κἀμοῦ καλοῦντοσ οὐκ ἐθέλει εἰσιέναι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 31:2)

Synonyms

  1. the front-door

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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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