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πρῳρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρῳρεύς πρῳρέως

Structure: πρῳρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: prw=|ra

Sense

  1. the officer in command at the bow, the look-out man

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

  • παραγγελλόμενα, τῶν δὲ κατὰ ναῦν ἀδικημάτων δικαστήριον καθειστήκει ναύκληροσ, κυβερνήτησ καὶ πρῳρεύσ, οἵπερ ἐδίκαζον κατὰ τοὺσ Συρακοσίων νόμουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 43 5:1)
  • τὸν δὲ τοῦ κυβερνήτου διάκονον, ὃσ πρῳρεὺσ τῆσ νεὼσ καλεῖται, οὕτωσ ηὑρ͂ον ἐπιστάμενον ἑκάστων τὴν χώραν ὡσ καὶ ἀπὼν ἂν εἴποι ὅπου ἕκαστα κεῖται καὶ ὁπόσα ἐστὶν οὐδὲν ἧττον ἢ ὁ γράμματα ἐπιστάμενοσ εἴποι ἂν Σωκράτουσ καὶ ὁπόσα γράμματα καὶ ὅπου ἕκαστον τέτακται. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 15:1)
  • τῶν δ’ ὀργάνων τὰ μὲν ἄψυχα τὰ δὲ ἔμψυχα οἱο͂ν τῷ κυβερνήτῃ ὁ μὲν οἰάξ ἄψυχον ὁ δὲ πρῳρεὺσ ἔμψυχον· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 37:2)
  • τῶν δὲ πλωτήρων καίπερ ἀνομοίων ὄντων τὴν δύναμιν ὁ μὲν γάρ ἐστιν ἐρέτησ, ὁ δὲ κυβερνήτησ, ὁ δὲ πρῳρεύσ, ὁ δ’ ἄλλην τιν’ ἔχων τοιαύτην ἐπωνυμίαν δῆλον ὡσ ὁ μὲν ἀκριβέστατοσ ἑκάστου λόγοσ ἴδιοσ ἔσται τῆσ ἀρετῆσ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ κοινόσ τισ ἐφαρμόσει πᾶσιν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 45:2)
  • ὅταν δὲ χειμὼν ᾖ καὶ θάλαττα μεγάλη ἐπιφέρηται, οὐχ ὁρᾶτε ὅτι καὶ νεύματοσ μόνον ἕνεκα χαλεπαίνει μὲν πρῳρεὺσ τοῖσ ἐν πρῴρᾳ, χαλεπαίνει δὲ κυβερνήτησ τοῖσ ἐν πρύμνῃ; (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 8 21:2)
  • καὶ προσῆλθε πρὸσ αὐτὸν ὁ πρωρεὺσ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ. τί σὺ ρέγχεισ̣ ἀνάστα καὶ ἐπικαλοῦ τὸν Θεόν σου, ὅπωσ διασώσῃ ὁ Θεὸσ ἡμᾶσ καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπολώμεθα. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ionae 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. the officer in command at the bow

Related

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

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