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
 

Noun

πρόμος • (prómos) m (genitive πρόμου); second declension

  1. foremost man
    Synonym: πρόμαχος (prómakhos)
  2. chief

Declension
Second declension of ὁ πρόμος; τοῦ πρόμου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
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
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal 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.
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