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πρυμνήσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρυμνήσιος πρυμνήσιᾱ πρυμνήσιον

Structure: πρυμνησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pru/mna

Sense

  1. of or from a ship's stern, stern-cables

Examples

  • ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἀφειδήσαντεσ, ὡσ ἐσείδομεν δόλια τεχνήματ’, εἰχόμεσθα τῆσ ξένησ πρυμνησίων τε, καὶ δι’ εὐθυντηρίασ οἰάκασ ἐξῃροῦμεν εὐπρύμνου νεώσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 3:4)
  • χρόνοσ δ’ ἐπὶ πρυμνησίων ξυνεμβολαῖσ ψαμμί’ ἀκτᾶσ παρή‐ μησεν, εὖθ’ ὑπ’ Ἴλιον ὦρτο ναυβάτασ στρατόσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. of or from a ship's stern

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

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