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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πρωθήβης πρωθήβᾱ πρωθῆβαι
Genitive πρωθήβου πρωθήβαιν πρωθηβῶν
Dative πρωθήβῃ πρωθήβαιν πρωθήβαις
Accusative πρωθήβην πρωθήβᾱ πρωθήβᾱς
Vocative πρωθῆβα πρωθήβᾱ πρωθῆβαι

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

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλοι πάντεσ Ἀπόλλωνα νέον τε ἥγηνται καὶ πρωθήβην ποιέουσιν, μοῦνοι δὲ οὗτοι Ἀπόλλωνοσ γενειήτεω ξόανον δεικνύουσιν. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 35:2)
  • Κατάσπα, ὁ δὲ παραπέμψει ἕκαστον ἀντὶ γέροντοσ αὖθισ πρωθήβησ γενόμενοσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 5:5)
  • Δημοδόκου γοῦν ᾅδοντοσ κοῦροι πρωθῆβαι ὠρχοῦντο καὶ ἐν τῇ Ὁπλοποιίᾳ δὲ παιδὸσ κιθαρίζοντοσ ἄλλοι ἐναντίοι μολπῇ τε ὀρχηθμῷ τε ἔσκαιρον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 27 1:1)
  • ἔνθεν δ’ αὖτ’ ἐπὶ νῆα νόημ’ ὣσ ἆλτο πέτεσθαι, ἀνέρι εἰδόμενοσ αἰζηῷ τε κρατερῷ τε, πρωθήβῃ, χαίτῃσ εἰλυμένοσ εὐρέασ ὤμουσ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 29:5)
  • ἀμφὶ Διώνυσον, Σεμέλησ ἐρικυδέοσ υἱόν, μνήσομαι, ὡσ ἐφάνη παρὰ θῖν’ ἁλὸσ ἀτρυγέτοιο ἀκτῇ ἔπι προβλῆτι νεηνίῃ ἀνδρὶ ἐοικώσ, πρωθήβῃ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:1)
  • 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

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

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