πρόμος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *prómos (whence also Middle Irish rom (“early, too soon”) and Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌼 (fram, “forward”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pró (“toward, leading to”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pró.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpro.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpro.mos/
Noun
πρόμος • (prómos) m (genitive πρόμου); second declension
- foremost man
- Synonym: πρόμαχος (prómakhos)
- chief
Declension
Second declension of ὁ πρόμος; τοῦ πρόμου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πρόμος ho prómos | τὼ πρόμω tṑ prómō | οἱ πρόμοι hoi prómoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πρόμου toû prómou | τοῖν πρόμοιν toîn prómoin | τῶν πρόμων tôn prómōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πρόμῳ tôi prómōi | τοῖν πρόμοιν toîn prómoin | τοῖς πρόμοις toîs prómois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πρόμον tòn prómon | τὼ πρόμω tṑ prómō | τοὺς πρόμους toùs prómous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πρόμε próme | πρόμω prómō | πρόμοι prómoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πρόμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πρόμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πρόμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πρόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- chief idem, page 129.
- lord idem, page 500.
- prince idem, page 641.