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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

  • 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)
  • ἀμφὶ δὲ κοῦροι πρωθῆβαι ἵσταντο, δαήμονεσ ὀρχηθμοῖο, πέπληγον δὲ χορὸν θεῖον ποσίν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 28:5)

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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