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προτομή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προτομή

Structure: προτομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: prote/mnw

Sense

  1. the foremost or upper part of anything: a bust or half-figure
  2. the forepart

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προτομή προτομᾱ́ προτομαί
Genitive προτομῆς προτομαῖν προτομῶν
Dative προτομῇ προτομαῖν προτομαῖς
Accusative προτομήν προτομᾱ́ προτομᾱ́ς
Vocative προτομή προτομᾱ́ προτομαί

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

  • ἁ προτομὰ Γοργοῦσ λιθοδερκέοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1474)
  • οὐκέτι δὴ πλωτοῖσιν ἀγαλλόμενοσ πελάγεσσιν αὐχέν’ ἀναρρίψω βυσσόθεν ὀρνύμενοσ, οὐδὲ περὶ σκαλάμοισι νεὼσ περικαλλέα χείλη ποιφύσσω, τἀμᾷ τερπόμενοσ προτομᾷ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2151)

Synonyms

  1. the forepart

Similar forms

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

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