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προστροπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προστροπή

Structure: προστροπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: prostre/pw

Sense

  1. a turning oneself towards, for purification, the supplication, any address to a god, prayers, the duty of praying, the priestly office, a petition
  2. a suppliant band

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προστροπή προστροπᾱ́ προστροπαί
Genitive προστροπῆς προστροπαῖν προστροπῶν
Dative προστροπῇ προστροπαῖν προστροπαῖς
Accusative προστροπήν προστροπᾱ́ προστροπᾱ́ς
Vocative προστροπή προστροπᾱ́ προστροπαί

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

  • θεᾶσ γὰρ τῆσδε προστροπὴν ἔχω. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 5:3)
  • σκευή τε γάρ σε καὶ τὸ δύστηνον κάρα δηλοῦτον ἡμῖν ὄνθ’ ὃσ εἶ, καί σ’ οἰκτίσασ θέλω ’περέσθαι, δύσμορ’ Οἰδίπουσ, τίνα πόλεωσ ἐπέστησ προστροπὴν ἐμοῦ τ’ ἔχων, αὐτόσ τε χἠ σὴ δύσμοροσ παραστάτισ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode3)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἀπέχρησεν αὐτοῖσ τοῦτον τὸν ὁρ́κον ὀμόσαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ προστροπὴν καὶ ἀρὰν ἰσχυρὰν ὑπὲρ τούτων ἐποιήσαντο. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1101)

Synonyms

  1. a suppliant band

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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