προύχοντα (prouchonta)

προύχοντα is an Ancient Greek form of προέχω, meaning “hold out; excel”. It is the present active participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.379: πήχυιον προύχοντα περὶ σκαλμοῖσιν ἔδησαν.

Plutarch, Theseus 3.3: … ν εὐδήλως δοκοῦσαν· ὅθεν εἰς Τροιζῆτα παρελθὼν ἀνεκοινοῦτο Πιτθεῖ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ φωνὴν οὕτως ἔχουσαν· ἀσκοῦ τὸν προὔχοντα πόδα, μέγα φέρτατε λαῶν, μὴ λύσῃς πρὶν δῆμον Ἀθηνέων εἰσαφικέσθαι·

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.