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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

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

  • οἱ δὲ ἱππεῖσ μύριοι καὶ πεντακισχίλιοι τὸ πλῆθοσ ὄντεσ ἐξήλασαν λαμπροί, κράνη μὲν εἰκασμένα θηρίων φοβερῶν χάσμασι καὶ προτομαῖσ ἰδιομόρφοισ ἔχοντεσ, ἃσ ἐπαιρόμενοι λόφοισ πτερωτοῖσ εἰσ ὕψοσ ἐφαίνοντο μείζουσ, θώραξι δὲ κεκοσμημένοι σιδηροῖσ, θυρεοῖσ δὲ λευκοῖσ στίλβοντεσ. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 25 7:1)
  • καὶ Φιλόξενοσ δ’ ὁ Κυθήριοσ ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ Δείπνῳ φησίν πίνετο νεκτάρεον πόμ’ ἐν χρυσέαισ προτομαῖσ ταύρων κεραστῶν,9 ἐβρέχοντο δὲ κατὰ μικρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 51 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. the forepart

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

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