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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

  • Μάριοσ δὲ ὕστερον ὁρῶν τυφλόστομον γινόμενον ἐκ τῆσ προσχώσεωσ καὶ δυσείσβολον καινὴν ἔτεμε διώρυχα, καὶ ταύτῃ δεξάμενοσ τὸ πλέον τοῦ ποταμοῦ Μασσαλιώταισ ἔδωκεν ἀριστεῖον κατὰ τὸν πρὸσ Ἄμβρωνασ καὶ Τωυγενοὺσ πόλεμον· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 16:3)
  • ἡ δ’ ἐπὶ τοῦτον πρόσβασισ ἔστω μὴ διὰ βαθμίδων, ἀλλὰ προσχώσεωσ αὐτῷ καταπρανοῦσ γενομένησ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 253:1)

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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