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προσπορπατός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσπορπατός προσπορπατή προσπορπατόν

Structure: προσπορπατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: porpa/w

Sense

  1. fastened on with a po/rph, pinned down

Declension

First/Second 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

  • αἰαῖ αἰαῖ, τῆσ πολυτέκνου Τηθύοσ ἔκγονα, τοῦ περὶ πᾶσάν θ’ εἱλισσομένου χθόν’ ἀκοιμήτῳ ῥεύματι παῖδεσ πατρὸσ, Ὠκεανοῦ, δέρχθητ’, ἐσίδεσθ’ οἱῴ δεσμῷ, προσπορπατὸσ τῆσδε φάραγγοσ σκοπέλοισ ἐν ἄκροισ φρουρὰν ἄζηλον ὀχήσω. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, anapests1)

Synonyms

  1. fastened on with a po

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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