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πρόρρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόρρησις πρόρρησεως

Structure: προρρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a foretelling, prediction, a previous instruction or warning
  2. public notice, a proclamation

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

  • μέμνημαι γάρ, ὦ γενναῖε, τῶν ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ προρρήσεων καὶ ἀποπλανᾶν οὐ βούλομαι τὸν λόγον, μή σου ἐπιταράξῃ τὴν μνήμην ἐπιρρέων. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 21:11)
  • ὁ δ’ Ἀντίγονοσ ἐν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ καταφρονεῖν εἰωθὼσ τῶν τοιούτων προρρήσεων οὐ μετρίωσ ἐκινήθη τότε, καταπλαγεὶσ τὸ ἀξίωμα τῶν ἀνδρῶν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 55 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. public notice

Related

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

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