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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

  • οἱο͂ν τὰσ ὀρειβασίασ τῶν περὶ τὸ θεῖον σπουδαζόντων καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν θεῶν καὶ τοὺσ ἐνθουσιασμοὺσ εἰκότωσ μυθεύουσι κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἰτίαν καθ’ ἣν καὶ οὐρανίουσ νομίζουσι τοὺσ θεοὺσ καὶ προνοητικοὺσ τῶν τε ἄλλων καὶ τῶν προσημασιῶν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 34:4)
  • ἔφη δ’ αὐτοὺσ καὶ τῶν περὶ φύσιν πολλὰ ἐξετάσαι καὶ προσημασιῶν, ὄμβρων αὐχμῶν νόσων· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 130:9)

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

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