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προσφερής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσφερής προσφερές

Structure: προσφερη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: prosfe/rw

Sense

  1. brought near, approaching, resembling, similar
  2. serviceable

Examples

  • σὺ μὲν πάλαι σκώπτων δῆλοσ εἶ, καὶ θαυμαστὸν οὐδὲν εἴ σοι τὸ παράδοξον τοῦ λόγου μύθῳ δοκεῖ προσφερέσ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 2:9)
  • οὐδ’ ὡσ ἰχνευμ<ων> προσφερὲσ πέφυκεν οὐδ’ ὡσ καρκίν<οσ>; (Sophocles, Ichneutae 25:12)
  • νῦν ἐγγὺσ ἔγνωσ ᾧ μάλιστα προσφερὲσ τὸ κνώδαλον. (Sophocles, Ichneutae 25:16)
  • εἶναι δὲ τὰ δένδρα ταύτῃ πήχεων καὶ τριάκοντα ἔστιν ἃ αὐτῶν, τυχεῖν τε ἀνθοῦντα ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὡρ́ᾳ, καὶ τὸ ἄνθοσ εἶναι τῷ λευκῷ μάλιστα ἰῴ προσφερέσ, τὴν ὀδμὴν δὲ πολύ τι ὑπερφέρον. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 22 7:1)
  • τὸ μέντοι κινδύνευμα οὐ σμικρὸν οὐδ’ ἑτέροισ τισὶν προσφερὲσ ἂν εἰή. (Plato, Laws, book 12 188:1)

Synonyms

  1. serviceable

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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