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Ancient Greek
Etymology
πρωτολόγος (prōtológos, “speaking first”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prɔː.to.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /pro.to.loˈʝi.a/ → /pro.to.loˈʝi.a/
Noun
πρωτολογῐ́ᾱ • (prōtologíā) f (genitive πρωτολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- the right of speaking first in a law-court, the part of the prosecutor
300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint,
Proverbs 18.17:
- δίκαιος ἑαυτοῦ κατήγορος ἐν πρωτολογίᾳ, ὡς δ’ ἂν ἐπιβάλῃ ὁ ἀντίδικος ἐλέγχεται.
- díkaios heautoû katḗgoros en prōtologíāi, hōs d’ àn epibálēi ho antídikos elénkhetai.
- the right of the leading advocate to speak first
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “πρωτολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρωτολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “πρωτολογία”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn