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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

  • ἓξ ἀναβαθμοὶ ἐν θρόνῳ καὶ προτομαὶ μόσχων τῷ θρόνῳ ἐκ τῶν ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ καὶ χεῖρεσ ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν ἐπὶ τοῦ τόπου τῆσ καθέδρασ, καὶ δύο λέοντεσ ἑστηκότεσ παρὰ τὰσ χεῖρασ, (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 10:17)
  • κράνη δὲ χαλκᾶ περιτίθενται μεγάλασ ἐξοχὰσ ἐξ ἑαυτῶν ἔχοντα καὶ παμμεγέθη φαντασίαν ἐπιφέροντα τοῖσ χρωμένοισ, ὧν τοῖσ μὲν πρόσκειται συμφυῆ κέρατα, τοῖσ δὲ ὀρνέων ἢ τετραπόδων ζῴων ἐκτετυπωμέναι προτομαί. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 30 2:3)

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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