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προστερνίδιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: προστερνίδιον προστερνίδιου

Structure: προστερνιδι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ste/rnon

Sense

  1. a covering for the breast, of horses

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἤνπερ τι πάσχῃ ὁ ἵπποσ, ἐν παντὶ κινδύνου καὶ ὁ ἀναβάτησ γίγνεται, ὁπλίζειν δεῖ καὶ τὸν ἵππον προμετωπιδίῳ καὶ προστερνιδίῳ καὶ παραμηριδίοισ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 12 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. a covering for the breast

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

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