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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

  • ἔστιν πόλισ Κάνωβοσ ἐσχάτη χθονόσ, Νείλου πρὸσ αὐτῷ στόματι καὶ προσχώματι· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 12:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ πεδίῳ πέτραν τινὰ προσχώματι συμπληρώσαντεσ εἰσ βουνοειδὲσ σχῆμα ἐπέθηκαν τεῖχοσ καὶ τὸ τῆσ Ἀναί̈τιδοσ καὶ τῶν συμβώμων θεῶν ἱερὸν ἱδρύσαντο, Ὠμανοῦ καὶ Ἀναδάτου Περσικῶν δαιμόνων, ἀπέδειξάν τε πανήγυριν κατ’ ἔτοσ ἱεράν, τὰ Σάκαια, ἣν μέχρι νῦν ἐπιτελοῦσιν οἱ τὰ Ζῆλα ἔχοντεσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 8 7:4)
  • καὶ δὴ καὶ τὴν Πριήνην ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ πρότερον οὖσαν μεσόγεων πεποίηκε τετταράκοντα σταδίων προσχώματι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 8 27:9)

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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