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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

  • ἦν γὰρ οὐ μόνον ἑνὶ ἀλλὰ πολλοῖσ οὐκ εὐάλωτον, εἶχε δὲ προτομὴν μὲν λέοντοσ, οὐρὰν δὲ δράκοντοσ, τρίτην δὲ κεφαλὴν μέσην αἰγόσ, δι’ ἧσ πῦρ ἀνίει. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 3 1:6)
  • εἶχον γὰρ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀσπίδων ὁ μὲν κάπρου προτομὴν ὁ δὲ λέοντοσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 6 1:7)
  • ἀλλὰ σύ μοι προφέρεισ τεκνίον ἀλλότριον, τὴν προτομὴν αὐτῷ περιθεὶσ κυνόσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2122)
  • ἐστόμωται δὲ παχεῖ σιδήρῳ κατ’ ἄκρον εἰσ κριοῦ προτομήν, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ καλεῖται, τετυπωμένῳ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 265:2)
  • τὸν μὲν γὰρ Ἄνουβιν περιθέσθαι κυνῆν, τὸν δὲ Μακεδόνα λύκου προτομήν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 18 1:3)

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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