Ancient Greek

Noun

προσβολή • ‎(prosbolḗ) f ‎(genitive προσβολῆς); first declension

1. a putting to, application
2. a falling on, attack, assault
3. attack party
4. an approaching, arrival
5. landing place, harbour
6. chance, accident, fate
7. the iron point of a weapon

Inflection

References

• προσβολή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• προσβολή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «προσβολή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • access idem, page 5.
  • appliance idem, page 35.
  • application idem, page 36.
  • approach idem, page 37.
  • attack idem, page 49.
  • charge idem, page 125.
  • employment idem, page 269.
  • impact idem, page 419.
  • infliction idem, page 438.
  • landing place idem, page 475.
  • onslaught idem, page 574.
  • outbreak idem, page 581.
  • percussion idem, page 604.
  • seizure idem, page 750.
  • storming idem, page 821.
  • stroke idem, page 827.
  • visitation idem, page 954.

Greek

Noun

προσβολή • ‎(prosvolí) f ‎(plural προσβολές)

1. insult, offense (deliberatedly intended to be rude)
2. insult (thing causing offense by being of unacceptable quality)
3. onset, offense, attack

Declension

Related terms

• προσβάλλω ‎(prosvállo)
• προσβλητικός ‎(prosvlitikós)
• προσβεβλημένος ‎(prosvevliménos)

See also

• αδίκημα n ‎(adíkima, “offence, crime”)