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πρόσχωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσχωσις πρόσχωσεως

Structure: προσχωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a bank or mound raised against

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

  • διεκβαίνων δὲ τὰ ὄρη τοσαύτην κατάγει χοῦν ἐπὶ θάλατταν, τὴν μὲν ἐκ τῆσ Καταονίασ τὴν δὲ ἐκ τῶν Κιλίκων πεδίων, ὥστε ἐπ’ αὐτῷ καὶ χρησμὸσ ἐκπεπτωκὼσ φέρεται τοιοῦτοσ ἔσσεται ἐσσομένοισ, ὅτε Πύραμοσ ἀργυροδίνησ ἠιόνα προχέων ἱερὴν ἐσ Κύπρον ἵκηται παραπλήσιον γάρ τι κἀκεῖ συμβαίνει καὶ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, τοῦ Νείλου προσεξηπειροῦντοσ ἀεὶ τὴν θάλατταν τῇ προσχώσει· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 2 7:9)

Synonyms

  1. a bank or mound raised against

    • χῶσις (a heaping up ; a raising of a mound or bank )

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

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