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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
- IPA(key): /pró.mos/ → /ˈpro.mos/ → /ˈpro.mos/
Noun
πρόμος • (prómos) m (genitive πρόμου); second declension
- foremost man
- Synonym: πρόμαχος (prómakhos)
- chief
Declension
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.