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προῖκʼ (proik)

προῖκʼ is an Ancient Greek form of προίξ, meaning “gift, dowry”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Superstitione 3·2: … λλʼ ὅ γε κωμικὸς οὐκ ἀηδῶς εἴρηκέ που πρὸς τοὺς καταχρυσοῦντας τὰ κλινίδια καὶ καταργυροῦντας ὅ τι μόνον ἡμῖν προῖκʼ ἔδωκαν οἱ θεοὶ τὸν ὕπνον, τί τοῦτο πολυτελὲς σαυτῷ ποιεῖς; ἔστι δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὸν δεισιδαίμονα εἰπεῖν ὅ τι τὸν …

All forms of προίξ (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.