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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πρόσχωσις προσχώσει προσχώσεις
Genitive προσχώσεως προσχώσοιν προσχώσεων
Dative προσχώσει προσχώσοιν προσχώσεσιν*
Accusative πρόσχωσιν προσχώσει προσχώσεις
Vocative πρόσχωσι προσχώσει προσχώσεις

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

  • "ῥεύματα τὴν μεγάλην ἐξιέναι γῆν καὶ γίγνεσθαι προσχώσεισ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν καὶ βαρεῖαν εἶναι καὶ γεώδη τὴν θάλατταν, ᾗ καὶ πεπηγέναι δόξαν ἔσχε. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 268)
  • προσχώσεισ, ἀπορρέουσαν· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 40 7:1)
  • αἱ δὲ προσχώσεισ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἀναβάσεων μὲν δύνανται ὑπονοεῖσθαι καὶ ἐξ ὧν δὲ εἶπε περὶ τῆσ Φάρου. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 60:16)
  • ὅτι δ’ ἡ ἀνάβασισ καὶ αἱ προσχώσεισ τοιαῦταί τινεσ, κοινότερον πεπύσθαι εἰκὸσ ἦν· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 60:18)
  • ἐνταῦθα μὲν δὴ διακοπαὶ χειρότμητοι γεγόνασιν, ἀλλαχόθι δὲ προσχώσεισ ἢ γεφυρώσεισ, καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῆσ πρὸσ Συρακούσαισ νήσου νῦν μὲν γέφυρά ἐστιν ἡ συνάπτουσα αὐτὴν πρὸσ τὴν ἤπειρον, πρότερον δὲ χῶμα, ὥσ φησιν Ἴβυκοσ, λογαίου λίθου, ὃν καλεῖ ἐκλεκτόν. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 36:4)

Synonyms

  1. a bank or mound raised against

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

Similar forms

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

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