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προτέρημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προτέρημα προτέρηματος

Structure: προτερηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from protere/w

Sense

  1. an advantage, victory

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

  • αὐτοὶ δ’ ἑαυτούσ, ἐὰν μὴ καὶ τὰ τῶν πλουσίων ἅμα καὶ τὰ α τῶν λογίων καὶ τὰ τῶν στρατευομένων καὶ τὰ τῶν φιλοσοφούντων καὶ τὰ τῶν κολακευόντων καὶ τὰ τῶν παρρησιαζομένων καὶ τὰ τῶν φειδομένων καὶ τὰ τῶν δαπανώντων ἔχωμεν προτερήματα, συκοφαντοῦμεν καὶ ἀχαριστοῦμεν αὑτοῖσ καὶ καταφρονοῦμεν ὡσ ἐνδεῶσ καὶ εὐτελῶσ βιούντων. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 13 4:1)
  • καὶ τὰ τῶν φειδομένων καὶ τὰ τῶν δαπανώντων ἔχωμεν προτερήματα, συκοφαντοῦμεν καὶ ἀχαριστοῦμεν αὑτοῖσ καὶ καταφρονοῦμεν ὡσ, ἐνδεῶσ καὶ εὐτελῶσ βιούντων. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 13 14:1)
  • ἐν ὀλίγαισ δ’ ἡμέραισ τηλικαῦτα ποιήσασ προτερήματα κατεπλήξατο πολλοὺσ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ὥστε τὰσ ἀνοχύρουσ πόλεισ ἐκλιπεῖν, εἰσ δὲ τὰ δυσβατώτατα τῶν ὀρῶν συμφυγεῖν μετὰ τέκνων καὶ γυναικῶν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 74 6:1)
  • Ἀγαθοκλῆσ μὲν οὖν Καρχηδονίουσ παραλόγωσ νικήσασ τειχήρεισ συνεῖχεν, ἡ τύχη δὲ ἐναλλὰξ τὰ προτερήματα τοῖσ ἐλαττώμασιν ἐπεισαγαγοῦσα τοὺσ ὑπερέχοντασ ἴσον ἐταπείνωσε τοῖσ ἡττωμένοισ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 13 3:2)
  • διόπερ εὔθετοι πρὸσ δρόμον εἰσὶ καὶ λιθοβολίαν, διαπεπονηκότεσ τῇ μελέτῃ καὶ τῇ συνηθείᾳ τὰ τῆσ φύσεωσ προτερήματα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 49 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. an advantage

Related

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

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