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προχο̈ίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προχο̈ίς προχο̈ίδος

Structure: προχο̈ιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pro/xoos의 지소사

Sense

  1. a chamberpot

Declension

Third 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

  • μνημονεύει αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐνι Ἀντιγόνῃ Ξενοφῶν δ’ ἐν ὀγδόῳ Παιδείασ προχοίδασ τινὰσ λέγει,6 γράφων ὧδε ὁ δὲ λόγοσ ἐστὶν αὐτῷ περὶ Περσῶν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 945)
  • "ἦν δὲ αὐτοῖσ νόμιμον μὴ προχοίδασ εἰσφέρεσθαι εἰσ τὰ συμπόσια, δῆλον ὅτι νομίζοντεσ τὸ μὴ ὑπερπίνειν ἧττον ἂν καὶ σώματα καὶ γνώμασ σφάλλειν νῦν δὲ τὸ μὲν μὴ εἰσφέρεσθαι ἔτι αὖ καταμένει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 946)
  • ἦν δ’ αὐτοῖσ νόμιμον μηδὲ προχοί̈δασ εἰσφέρεσθαι εἰσ τὰ συμπόσια, δῆλον ὅτι νομίζοντεσ τὸ μὴ ὑπερπίνειν ἧττον ἂν καὶ σώματα καὶ γνώμασ σφάλλειν· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 8 14:1)

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

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