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πρόσχωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσχωμα πρόσχωματος

Structure: προσχωματ (Stem)

Etym.: from prosxw/nnu_mi

Sense

  1. a deposit made by water

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

  • καθ’ ἕκαστον γὰρ ἔτοσ ἀεὶ νέασ ἰλύοσ ἀθροιζομένησ πρὸσ τὰ στόματα τοῦ ποταμοῦ καθορᾶται τὸ μὲν πέλαγοσ ἐξωθούμενον τοῖσ προσχώμασιν, ἡ δὲ χώρα τὴν αὔξησιν λαμβάνουσα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 3 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a deposit made by water

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

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