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πρωτοπορεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωτοπορεία

Structure: πρωτοπορει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the advanced guard, vanguard

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

  • ἐν ᾧ καιρῷ πάντασ ἄρδην ἀπολέσθαι συνέβη τοὺσ περὶ τὸν Ἀννίβαν, εἰ μὴ δεδιότεσ ἀκμὴν ἐπὶ ποσὸν καὶ προορώμενοι τὸ μέλλον τὰ μὲν σκευοφόρα καὶ τοὺσ ἱππεῖσ εἶχον ἐν τῇ πρωτοπορείᾳ, τοὺσ δ’ ὁπλίτασ ἐπὶ τῆσ οὐραγίασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 53 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. the advanced guard

Related

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

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