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προτένθης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προτένθης προτένθου

Structure: προτενθ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. one who picks out the tid-bits, a dainty fellow, gourmand

Declension

First 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

  • ὅπερ οἱ προτένθαι γὰρ δοκοῦσί μοι ποιεῖν· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics19)
  • Χάρησ γοῦν ἐν τῇ γ τῶν ἱστοριῶν Πτολεμαῖόν φησι τὸν Σωτῆρα ἐδέατρον ἀποδειχθῆναι Ἀλεξάνδρου, μήποτε δὲ καὶ ὃν νῦν καλοῦσι Ῥωμαῖοι πρωτογεύστην τότε οἱ Ἕλληνεσ προτένθην ὠνόμαζον, ὡσ Ἀριστοφάνησ ἐν προτέραισ Νεφέλαισ διὰ τούτων στρ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 712)
  • ὅπερ οἱ προτένθαι γὰρ δοκοῦσιν μοι παθεῖν ἵν’ ὡσ τάχιστα τὰ πρυτανεῖ’ ὑφελοίατο, διὰ τοῦτο προὐτένθευσαν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 71 1:3)
  • τῶν γὰρ προτενθῶν ἐσμέν, ἀλλ’ οὐκ οἶσθα σύ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 71 2:2)
  • ἡ τῶν προτενθῶν Δορπία καλουμένη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 71 2:5)

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

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