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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

  • τοιοῦτον δ’ ἐστὶ καὶ ἡ τοῦ Νείλου ἀνάβασισ καὶ ἡ πρόσχωσισ τοῦ πελάγουσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 58:5)
  • ἡ γὰρ πρόσχωσισ περὶ αὐτὰ συνίσταται τὰ στόματα τῶν ποταμῶν, οἱο͂ν περὶ μὲν τὰ τοῦ Ἴστρου τὰ λεγόμενα στήθη καὶ ἡ Σκυθῶν ἐρημία καὶ ὁ Σαλμυδησσόσ, καὶ ἄλλων χειμάρρων συνεργούντων πρὸσ τοῦτο, περὶ δὲ τὰ τοῦ Φάσιδοσ ἡ Κολχικὴ παραλία δίαμμοσ καὶ ταπεινὴ καὶ μαλακὴ οὖσα, περὶ δὲ τὸν Θερμώδοντα καὶ τὸν Ἶριν ὅλη Θεμίσκυρα, τὸ τῶν Ἀμαζόνων πεδίον, καὶ τῆσ Σιδηνῆσ τὸ πλέον· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 14:6)

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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