προοίμιον

Ancient Greek

From προ- (pro-) +‎ οἶμος (oîmos, “way, road, path”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion).

προοίμῐον • (prooímion) n (genitive προοιμῐ́ου); second declension

Second declension of τὸ προοίμῐον; τοῦ προοιμῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Latin: prooemium, prohoemium; prohemium, prohemum
- English: proem
- French: proême
- German: Proömium

“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.

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