πρόσχωσις?
Third declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration: proschōsis
Principal Part:
πρόσχωσις
πρόσχωσεως
Structure:
προσχωσι
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- 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.
- "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)
- ὡς δὲ τῷ τε βαθυτέρῳ ἤδη ἐπέλαζον καὶ ἅμα τῇ πόλει αὐτῇ ἐγγὺς ἐγίγνοντο, ἀπό τε τῶν τειχῶν ὑψηλῶν ὄντων βαλλόμενοι ἐκακοπάθουν, ἅτε καὶ ἐπ᾿ ἐργασίᾳ μᾶλλόν τι ἢ ὡς ἐς μάχην ἀκριβῶς ἐσταλμένοι, καὶ ταῖς τριήρεσιν ἄλλῃ καὶ ἄλλῃ τοῦ χώματος ἐπιπλέοντες οἱ Τύριοι, ἅτε δὴ θαλασσοκρατοῦντες ἔτι, ἄπορον πολλαχῇ τὴν πρόσχωσιν τοῖς Μακεδόσιν ἐποίουν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 18 5:1)
- καὶ ὁ μὲν ἐξευρὼν τοῦ Ἀχελῴου τὴν πρόσχωσιν ἐνταῦθα ᾤκησε, καὶ γυναῖκα ἔσχε Καλλιρόην τοῦ Ἀχελῴου θυγατέρα λόγῳ τῷ Ἀκαρνάνων, καί οἱ παῖδες Ἀκαρνάν τε καὶ Ἀμφότερος ἐγένοντο: (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 12:1)
- 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, οἱο῀ν 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
-
a bank or mound raised against
- χῶσις (a heaping up ; a raising of a mound or bank )
