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προσωπεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσωπεῖον προσωπεῖου

Structure: προσωπει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pro/swpon

Sense

  1. a mask

Declension

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

  • ἤκουσα δέ τινοσ καὶ περιττότερόν τι νεανιευομένου ὑπὲρ τῆσ τῶν ὀρχηστικῶν προσωπείων σιωπῆσ, ὅτι καὶ αὕτη Πυθαγορικόν τι δόγμα αἰνίττεται. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 70:4)
  • ἀμφορεὺσ οἴνου καὶ κληματίσ, εἶτα τράγον τισ εἷλκεν, ἄλλοσ ἰσχάδων ἄρριχον ἠκολούθει κομίζων, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δ’ ὁ φαλλόσ ἀλλὰ νῦν ταῦτα παρεώραται καὶ ἠφάνισται , χρυσωμάτων περιφερομένων καὶ ἱματίων πολυτελῶν καὶ ζευγῶν ἐλαυνομένων καὶ προσωπείων. (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 8 10:1)
  • "ἔστι δ’ οὐδέτερον, ὦ παῖ, παράλογον, μόνον ἂν ὀρθὰσ καὶ καθαρὰσ περὶ τοῦ θεοῦ δόξασ ἔχωμεν, καὶ μὴ νομίζωμεν αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον εἶναι τὸν τὰ ἔπη συντιθέντα πρότερον καὶ νῦν ὑποβάλλοντα τῇ Πυθίᾳ τοὺσ χρησμούσ, ὥσπερ ἐκ προσωπείων φθεγγόμενον. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 205)

Synonyms

  1. a mask

Related

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

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