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προσημασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσημασία

Structure: προσημασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a foretoken, prognostic

Declension

First 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

  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ τὴν τῶν ἱστίων χρείαν τοῖσ ναυτικοῖσ ἐπεισηγήσασθαι, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ τοῦ πυρὸσ προσημασίασ παρατετηρηκότα προλέγειν τοὺσ ἐγχωρίουσ ἀνέμουσ εὐστόχωσ, ἐξ οὗ ταμίαν αὐτὸν εἶναι τῶν ἀνέμων ὁ μῦθοσ ἀνέδειξε· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 7 7:3)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τὴν εὐπείθειαν τοῦ ἔθνουσ συναγωνιστὴν ἔσχε Δεκαίνεον ἄνδρα γόητα, πεπλανημένον κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ προσημασίασ ἐκμεμαθηκότα τινάσ, δι’ ὧν ὑπεκρίνετο τὰ θεῖα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 22:4)

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

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