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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προ- (pro-) + οἶμος (oîmos, “way, road, path”) + -ῐον (-ion).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pro.ǒi̯.mi.on/ → /proˈy.mi.on/ → /proˈi.mi.on/
Noun
προοίμῐον • (prooímion) n (genitive προοιμῐ́ου); second declension
- opening, prelude, preamble, preface, introduction
- hymn
Inflection
Descendants
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.