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προθεσμίαν (prothesmian)

προθεσμίαν is an Ancient Greek form of προθεσμία, meaning “day appointed beforehand, a fixed”.

It can also be a form of προθέσμιος, “appointed beforehand; (f.) term, deadline”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 11: οἶμαι δὲ καὶ τὴν φύσιν ὁρῶσαν τὸ τʼ ἄτακτον καὶ βραχυχρόνιον τοῦ βίου ἄδηλον ποιῆσαι τὴν τοῦ θανάτου προθεσμίαν τοῦτο γὰρ ἦν ἄμεινον. εἰ γὰρ προῄδειμεν, κἂν προεξετήκοντό τινες ταῖς λύπαις καὶ πρὶν ἀποθανεῖν ἐτεθνήκεσαν. …

All forms of προθεσμία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.