Ancient Greek

Noun

προοίμιον • ‎(prooímion) n ‎(genitive προοιμίου); second declension

1. opening, prelude, preamble, preface, introduction
2. hymn

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: prooemium

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 575.
  • overture idem, page 587.
  • preamble idem, page 632.
  • preface idem, page 634.
  • preliminary idem, page 635.
  • prelude idem, page 635.
  • premise idem, page 635.
  • proem idem, page 653.
  • prologue idem, page 653.