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προσόμοιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσόμοιος προσόμοιον

Structure: προσομοι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. much like

Examples

  • πράττουσι μὲν δὴ οὐδ’ ἐξ ἑνὸσ ὀρθοῦ λόγου, τὴν ἐν τῷ παραχρῆμα διώκοντεσ ῥᾳστώνην καὶ τῷ τοὺσ μὲν προσομοίουσ αὐτοῖσ ἀσπάζεσθαι, τοὺσ δ’ ἀνομοίουσ μὴ στέργειν, πλεῖστον τῇ δυσχερείᾳ μέροσ ἀπονέμοντεσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 321:2)
  • καὶ τοῦ μὲν χυτρέωσ οὐ κατηγορεῖσ ὅτι μὴ πάντασ ἐφεξῆσ πλάττειν ἐδίδαξε, τῶν δ’ ἄκρων ἐν τοῖσ Ἕλλησι κατηγορεῖσ ὅτι μὴ πάντασ ἑαυτοῖσ προσομοίουσ ἐποίησαν; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 112:2)

Synonyms

  1. much like

Related

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

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