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προϋπαρχή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προϋπαρχή

Structure: προϋπαρχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a previous service

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

  • ἐνίοτε γὰρ οὐδ’ ἐστὶν ἴσον τὸ τὴν προϋπαρχὴν ἀμείψασθαι, ἐπειδὰν ὃ μὲν σπουδαῖον εἰδὼσ εὖ ποιήσῃ, τῷ δὲ ἡ ἀνταπόδοσισ γίνηται ὃν οἰέται μοχθηρὸν εἶναι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 24:1)
  • Αἱ δὲ καθ’ ἡμέρην καταστάσιεσ, αἱ μὲν βόρειοι τά τε σώματα ξυνιστᾶσι, καὶ εὔτονα καὶ εὐκίνητα καὶ εὔχροα καὶ εὐηκοώτερα ποιέουσι, καὶ τὰσ κοιλίασ ξηραίνουσι, καὶ τὰ ὄμματα δάκνουσι, καὶ περὶ τὸν θώρηκα ἄλγημα ἤν τι προϋπάρχῃ, μᾶλλον πονέουσιν‧ αἱ δὲ νότιοι διαλύουσι τὰ σώματα καὶ ὑγραίνουσι, καὶ βαρυηκοί̈ασ καὶ καρηβαρίασ καὶ ἰλίγγουσ ποιέουσιν, ἐν δὲ τοῖσιν ὀφθαλμοῖσι καὶ τοῖσι σώμασι δυσκινησίην, καὶ τὰσ κοιλίασ ὑγραίνουσιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 31.18)
  • ἠπιστάμην μὲν οὖν καὶ τοῦτο ὥσπερ ἔρεισμα πολλοῖσ ὂν καὶ καταφυγὴν τὸ τοὺσ παρόντασ ἐπαινεῖν ἀεὶ καὶ ἐν οἷσ ἂν λέγωσι, πολλοὺσ δὲ καὶ τῶν ἀποδιδρασκόντων ἐξ ἑτέρων πόλεων κακῶσ ἐκείνασ λέγοντασ πρὸσ ταύτασ ἐν αἷσ ἂν γένωνται, ἄλλωσ τε κἄν τισ αὐταῖσ προϋπάρχῃ πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ διαφορά. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. a previous service

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

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