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πρόωρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόωρος πρόωρον

Structure: προωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: w(/ra

Sense

  1. before the time, untimely

Declension

First/Second 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

  • καὶ πάλαι σοι συνήλγησα καὶ συνηχθέσθην, Ἀπολλώνιε, ἀκούσασ περὶ τῆσ τοῦ προσφιλεστάτου πᾶσιν ἡμῖν υἱοῦ σου προώρου μεταλλαγῆσ τοῦ βίου, νεανίσκου κοσμίου πάνυ καὶ σώφρονοσ; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 11)
  • εὐρεῖαι δὲ φλέβεσ οὐ πλημμύρῃ τοῦ αἵματοσ, ἀλλὰ τῷ τοῦ δέρματοσ πάχεϊ· οὐκ ἐσ πολλὸν δὲ καὶ ἕδρα δήλη, τοῦ παντὸσ εἰσ ἶσον ὄχθον ἐγειρομένου· τρίχεσ ἐν μὲν τῷ παντὶ προτεθνήσκουσι, χερσὶ, μηροῖσι, κνήμῃσι, αὖθισ, ἥβῃ, γενείοισι ἀραιαὶ, ψεδναὶ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ κόμαι· τὸ δὲ μᾶλλον πρόωροι πολιοὶ καὶ φαλάκρωσισ ἀθρόη. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 374)
  • τύμβου δ’ ἐν πατέρων κενεοῦ λάχεν ὃν πέρι Προμηθὶσ μήτηρ, λυγρῇ ὄρνιθι πότμον εἰκέλη, αἰαῖ κωκύει τὸν ἑὸν γόνον ἤματα πάντα, λέγουσα τὸν πρόωρον ὡσ ἀπέφθιτο. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 13, chapter 27 1:1)
  • Ὑμνίδα τὴν Εὐάνδρου, ἐράσμιον αἰὲν ἄθυρμα οἰκογενέσ, κούρην αἱμύλον εἰναέτιν, ἡρ́πασασ, ὦ ἄλλιστ’ Αἴδη, τί πρόωρον ἐφιεὶσ μοῖραν τῇ πάντωσ σεῖὸ ποτ’ ἐσσομένῃ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 6431)

Synonyms

  1. before the time

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

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