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προσφυής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσφυής προσφυές

Structure: προσφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: prosfu/w

Sense

  1. growing upon or from, attached to
  2. attached or devoted to, suitably

Examples

  • σειρῇ μικρῇ ἑωυτόν τε ἅμα καὶ τὸν φαλλὸν περιβάλλει, μετὰ δὲ ἐπιβαίνει ξύλων προσφυῶν τῷ φαλλῷ ὁκόσον ἐσ χώρην ἄκρου ποδόσ· (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 29:2)

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

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