προοίμιον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- φροίμῐον (phroímion) – Tragic
Etymology
From προ- (pro-) + οἶμος (oîmos, “way, road, path”) + -ῐον (-ion).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pro.ǒi̯.mi.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /proˈy.mi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /proˈy.mi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /proˈy.mi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /proˈi.mi.on/
Noun
προοίμῐον • (prooímion) n (genitive προοιμῐ́ου); second declension
- opening, prelude, preamble, preface, introduction
- hymn
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ προοίμῐον; τοῦ προοιμῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ προοίμῐον tò prooímion | τὼ προοιμῐ́ω tṑ prooimíō | τᾰ̀ προοίμῐᾰ tà prooímia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ προοιμῐ́ου toû prooimíou | τοῖν προοιμῐ́οιν toîn prooimíoin | τῶν προοιμῐ́ων tôn prooimíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ προοιμῐ́ῳ tôi prooimíōi | τοῖν προοιμῐ́οιν toîn prooimíoin | τοῖς προοιμῐ́οις toîs prooimíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ προοίμῐον tò prooímion | τὼ προοιμῐ́ω tṑ prooimíō | τᾰ̀ προοίμῐᾰ tà prooímia | ||||||||||
Vocative | προοίμῐον prooímion | προοιμῐ́ω prooimíō | προοίμῐᾰ prooímia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: prooemium
- English: proem
References
- “προοίμιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “προοίμιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- προοίμιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “προοίμιον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- beginning idem, page 71.
- introduction idem, page 455.
- opening idem, page 576.
- overture idem, page 587.
- preamble idem, page 634.
- preface idem, page 634.
- preliminary idem, page 635.
- prelude idem, page 635.
- premise idem, page 635.
- proem idem, page 653.
- prologue idem, page 653.