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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

  • Ἀντιφάνησ δ’ ἐν Κύκλωπι ὑπερακοντίζων τὸν τένθην Ἀρχέστρατόν φησιν ἔστω δ’ ἡμῖν κεστρεὺσ τμητόσ, νάρκη πνικτή, πέρκη σχιστή, τευθὶσ σακτή, συνόδων ὀπτόσ, γλαύκου προτομή, γόγγρου κεφαλή, βατράχου γαστήρ, θύννου λαγόνεσ, βατίδοσ νῶτον, κέστρασ ὀσφύσ, ψητταρικίσκοσ, μαινίσ, καρίσ, τρίγλη, φυκίσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 46 1:4)
  • ἐκ μὲν δὴ τοῦ ὑφ’ ἡμῶν ὁραθέντοσ ταῦτά φαμεν ἡμεῖσ, ἐκεῖνοσ δὲ προσδιασαφεῖ διότι καὶ ἐλεφαντομάχον ἰδίωσ ἐστὶ τὸ ζῷον περὶ τῆσ νομῆσ, ὑποδῦνον τῇ προτομῇ καὶ ἀνακεῖρον τὴν γαστέρα, ἐὰν μὴ προληφθῇ τῇ προβοσκίδι καὶ τοῖσ ὀδοῦσι. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 29:14)

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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