προτέρων (proteron)

προτέρων is an Ancient Greek form of πρότερος, meaning “earlier, former; before”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

Found 198 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.919: ἔνθʼ οὔπω τις τοῖος ἐπὶ προτέρων γένετʼ ἀνδρῶν,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.23: … Περὶ〉 ἐρωτήσεως καὶ ἀποκρίσεως α′ β′. Περὶ κινήσεως α′. Προτάσεις α′. Προτάσεις ἐριστικαὶ α′. Συλλογισμοὶ α′. Προτέρων ἀναλυτικῶν α′ β′ γ′ δ′ ε′ σ′ ζ′ η′. Ἀναλυτικῶν ὑστέρων μεγάλων α′ β′ Περὶ προβλημάτων α′. Μεθοδικὰ α′ β′ γ′ δ …

All forms of πρότερος (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.