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πρωθήβης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωθήβης πρωθήβου

Structure: πρωθηβ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: prw=tos

Sense

  1. in the prime of youth

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

  • Κατάσπα, ὁ δὲ παραπέμψει ἕκαστον ἀντὶ γέροντοσ αὖθισ πρωθήβησ γενόμενοσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 5:5)
  • σὺν καί οἱ Ὕλασ κίεν, ἐσθλὸσ ὀπάων, πρωθήβησ, ἰῶν τε φορεὺσ φύλακόσ τε βιοῖο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 3:12)

Synonyms

  1. in the prime of youth

Related

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

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