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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

  • καὶ παρεγενήθησαν καὶ ἐπολιόρκουν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν τὴν Ἀβὲλ καὶ Βαιθμαχὰ καὶ ἐξέχεαν πρόσχωμα πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ἔστη ἐν τῷ προτειχίσματι, καὶ πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ μετά Ἰωὰβ ἐνοοῦσαν καταβαλεῖν τὸ τεῖχοσ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 20:15)
  • οὐχ οὕτωσ̣ τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ πρὸσ βασιλέα Ἀσσυρίων. οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ταύτην καὶ οὐ τοξεύσει ἐκεῖ βέλοσ, καὶ οὐ προφθάσει αὐτὴν θυρεόσ, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐκχέῃ πρὸσ αὐτὴν πρόσχωμα. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 19:32)
  • καὶ εἰσελεύσεται βασιλεὺσ τοῦ βορρᾶ καὶ ἐκχεεῖ πρόσχωμα καὶ συλλήψεται πόλεισ ὀχυράσ, καὶ οἱ βραχίονεσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ τοῦ νότου οὐ στήσονται, καὶ ἀναστήσονται οἱ ἐκλεκτοὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ἰσχὺσ τοῦ στῆναι. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 11:15)
  • 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)

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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