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πρόσπτυγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσπτυγμα πρόσπτυγματος

Structure: προσπτυγματ (Stem)

Etym.: from prosptu/ssw

Sense

  1. the object of embraces

Declension

Third 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

  • ἄγε παῖ, φίλιον πρόσπτυγμα μεθεὶσ μητρὸσ μογερᾶσ, βαῖνε πατρῴων πύργων ἐπ’ ἄκρασ στεφάνασ, ὅθι σοι πνεῦμα μεθεῖναι ψῆφοσ ἐκράνθη. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests1)

Synonyms

  1. the object of embraces

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

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